Here's an example...
                        I only have E-mail at my place of work and my boss
is not entirely convinced by all the shell-related e-mail I get. I recently
took a 2 week holiday (shelling in the Hebrides, Scotland) and returned to
an inbox of nearly 300 unopened items! I'm still ploughing through them.
                        When I subscribed to Conch-L I had no idea of what
to suspect or how many messages are circulated. I have thus been considering
unsubscribing simply because of my boss's potential disapproval.
                        The system itself is very interesting...
                        SIMON TAYLOR
                        Witham
                        Essex
                        United Kingdom

                                -----Original Message-----
                                From:   Art Weil [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
                                Sent:   25 August 2000 02:16
                                To:     [log in to unmask]
                                Subject:        Question Man

                                    According to my calculations, we lost
one member and welcomed
                                another today. Nice balance! But what I'd
like to know is why people
                                un-subscribe. It might help us do a better
job. Sometimes there is
                                nothing serious going on, no new shell news,
no controversy, no new
                                opinions, and (worst of all) no
shell-related questions.
                                    It can't be that people are shocked by
Tom or Ross's weather
                                reports, my adventures in the skies over
Cincinnati, or the intimate
                                doings of Austrian land snails.
                                    If you are still sneaking a peak once in
a while tell us: Did they
                                reposess your computer? Did you change to
stamp collecting? Did you see
                                some hitherto unsuspected error in your
ways?
                                    Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, How'd you
like the show?
                                        Q-Man