It sure would be nice if that hard core group that insists on off-topic
discussions despite the many pleas like the one below, would finally get
the message and respect the rules of participation.  Your standard
comeback is "use your delete key."  That might be valid for occasional
oversights.  But that attitude does not justify 20-30 off topic
communiques a day, and is just plain rude.  Please, learn how to use
mailing lists, as the Clarks suggest, and take your off topic
conversations off Conch-L.
 
Here, here Clarks!!!!!!!!!
 
Marlo
Florida
 
Howard L. Clark or Kate Clark wrote:
 
> Dear Fellow Subscribers,
>
> I have been receiving the messages of  this list for about a month.
> One of the first messages that I read was a request that mail for a
> particular individual be sent directly to that indvidual's own e-mail
> address rather than to the group at large.  This was followed by
> several messages explaining how to do so.  This suggestion seems to
> have had little effect and so I receive some 20-25 messages per day
> that are, in fact, intended for someone else or perhaps for a small
> group of subscribers (e.g., those interested in manure, artichokes
> or football).  It is easy enough to address a message to one
> particular person or to send carbon copies  to several people and it
> does not seem to me to be too much to ask that this be done when
> appropriate.
>
> Some of us have to pay quite heavily for net access, especially those
> outside of the USA ($6.00/hour here in Ecuador) so the time spent
> downloading irrelevant messages is a consideration.  I downloaded the
> Conch-L list of subscribers last night and found that there are 384
> of us; surely I am not the only one who feels inundated by unwanted
> messages.  Or am I?
>
> Kate Clark
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