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Good grief, give it a rest. I have written Janet a couple of notes marked private and they have never seen the list. Nita Edward Raasch wrote: > Janet, > > I too share in the opinion that you seem to run to "the list" for some > sort of perceived protection. You make public an email that was obviously > meant solely for you. That is indeed very childish and I wish that you > would stop! > > Edward > > janet paterson > <[log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask] > > cc: > Sent by: "Parkinson's Subject: Re: Try another tune please > Information Exchange > Network" > <[log in to unmask] > oronto.ca> > > 11/16/99 01:48 PM > Please respond to > "Parkinson's > Information Exchange > Network" > > 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/