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hi marla thank you for your interest i will spend my 2.5 minutes working on raising parkinson's awareness and sharing information with present and future listmembers. my favourite list-song? de-de-lete, de-delete, de-delete-lete-lete! janet At 01:31 2001/07/14 -0700, Marla Gillham wrote: >Thank you Paul, Camilla, and Katie, for continuing the discussion of >inappropriate postings to the list. When I signed on today there were 58 >new messages, of which about 50 were PD related. About 40 were from this >list, and of those 16 were from Janet, or somewhere between 30-40%. > >Janet, methinks thou dost protest too loudly... There have been many >rational efforts to request some e-etiquette. I will not judge you, and >others who continue to refuse to accommodate the many who accommodate the >few who dominate the list with emails that would be more appropriately sent >to a reduced personal list. But I will ask you to seriously consider why >you resist making even minor changes. Is there no value in compromise? In >a list of over 2000 members, shouldn't the few respect the many, however >silent they may be? > >To quantify this in energetic terms (something we ecologists are wont to >do...): if we assume that 50% of the list favors unlimited personal >postings and 50% favor reasonable e-etiquette limitations, and then assume >10 seconds to read and delete each message -- these 16 messages took at >least 2.5 minutes of my time tonight. x 1000 = 2500 minutes for 1/2 of the >list to delete ~ = 42 computer hours. That's a lot. > >For the sake of reasonableness, let's cut that # in half to yield a daily >average of 21 computer hours spent by members of this list deleting unwanted >email. Annualized, this = 7,665 hours = 319 days... nearly a year of time. > >Folks, insofar as energy use is concerned, and consequent global warming, >this is flat out unconscionable. > >For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. > >THINK about WHAT you DO ! The U.S., with 4% of the global population >produces 25% of the carbon dioxide emissions. While not all energy use >produces CO2, the analogy is an appropriate commentary on our thoughtless, >rugged-individualist, wasteful attitudes. Reflecting on the "greater good" >might yield some insight. > >In closing, I urge those who use the list "loosely" to reflect. If not >about my 2.5 minutes, how about atmospheric warming... > >Hoping to spend my 2.5 minutes posting useful info, in future... > >Marla > > >Marla L. Gillham >PO Box 343 >Yachats, OR 97498-0343 >541.547.4090 >[log in to unmask] janet paterson: an akinetic rigid subtype, albeit perky, parky . pd: 54/41/37 cd: 54/44/43 tel: 613 256 8340 email: [log in to unmask] . snail mail: 375 Country Street, Apt 301, Almonte, Ontario, Canada, K0A 1A0 . a new voice: the nnnewsletter: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/janet313/ . a new voice: the wwweb site: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn