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hi all i offer the following in the spirit of sharing. janet At 14:09 1999/11/16 -0500, martha wrote to me: >Dear Janet: >I am offering the following in the spirit of helpful criticism, >not with malice. Please accept it in that spirit. > >It really is unbecomming and unworthy of you to keep harping >on your version of the circumstances of David Boots' departure >from the PD list. Especially mean was your focus on letting >all the newcomers know the rather slanted details of the >happenings of some two years ago. Do give it a rest. > >I have been a member of this list since 1995 and was present >during those days. I have also corresponded with David continuously >since then, so I am privy to both sides of this seeming vendetta of >yours. > >Actually, your rather bulky and rigid rules re directing messages >to the list have turned a number of us off. Like most of the other >members of the health care professions, I am no longer contributing >and I am seldom rewarded by any gold among the heaps of dross. >This list has drifted far away from the rich source of helpful >information it once was. > >It would be much more profitable if you would focus your attention >on the many personal messages that abuse the purpose of the list. You >are very good at blasting the snake oil purveyors off the list. Why >not do the same for the chronic abusers who persist in sending their >personal chatter to the entire world-wide list AND to the archives >where they will reside forever. > >Your device of using a small "i" rather than the traditional >capital would seem to indicate a retiring personality with low >self-esteem rampant. Obviously that is not the case. Quite the >opposite. Your way or off with your head SEEMS to be more the case. >It is particularly harmful to encourage the hurtful derisive epithets >of "list police" etc., when any of us dares to complain about the flood >of nattering trivia that chronically infests the list. As list duenna, >you can stop it with gentle but firm reminders of list courtesy. It is >unfair to demand that busy professionals who are on the list to learn or >offer help "Just delete", while continuing to allow the very abuse that >many are complaining about. We have lost many of the voices that have >been so helpful in the past. Where is Ida? Doc Faye? Our pharmacist? >etc. We don't need another chat room. > >So count me among the many others who are distressed and grumpy about >the direction things are going under your guidance. Your messages from >Bermuda revealed a very different personality than we have seen since >you returned to Canada. What happened to that delightful person? > >Trying to understand.... >Martha > >[log in to unmask] janet paterson 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset e-mail - [log in to unmask] web-site - http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/