On 19-Jun-00, Richard S. White <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
It is these constant (intentional) attention getting threats to quit the
server (I've been here perhaps three months, and have seen Helmut threaten
this at least three or four times.....) that cause me to delete most
messages from Conch-L without reading the text.  I only read the ones which
indicate a topic I might find of interest.  How many times do the fine
people here have to explain to Helmut the workings of the listserver, and
that there are basic rules, written and unwritten, of common courtesy?  I
might believe that he didn't understand the workings the first 5 or 10
times........
Helmut, it sounds like you are doing a very fine and worthwhile job helping
your museum.  Please tone things down a bit.

-----Original Message-----
From: Helmut Nisters [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2000 11:28 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject:


Dear Conchlers,

a few minutes ago I got a new warning, which made me sad and a little bit
angry. I thought I've bettered me,
a few attachments came back or were rejected. So I quit really the list and
I hope I hope sent to listserv the
right order with "unsubcribe". Can you tell me the right order, if it is not
so. To all those, who took my
side, I want to thank very much and I hope you'll be with me in contact in
future too privately.
I could not accept this warning, as I saw in the past other announcement
which would be worse than mines.
I hope they got a warning too and not only I. But maybe I come back when
I've thought enough.
Bye to all and thanks for your support.
Helmut

Helmut "Helix" Nisters
Franz-Fischer-Str. 46
A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
phone: 0043 / 512 / 57 32 14
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
web:    www.netwing.at/nisters/
           (please visit it and sign guestbook)
always looking for shellgrit from all over the world
for my nearly 89 years aged mother Irmgard
to makes happy and to keep up her health

office:
Natural History Department of the
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck
Feldstrasse 11 a
A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
phone: 0043 / 512 / 58 72 86 - 37
web: www.tiroler-landesmuseum.at
        (specimen donations to the
         Tiroler Landesmuseum molluscs collection
         are always appreciated)
Hey, Man-
It takes all kinds to make a world, thusly, it takes all kinds to make a large slection of shell collectors.  Also, remember that Helmut's native language is not English.  I submit that Conch-L would lose a different but ultimately enjoyable character if Helmut were not on it.  And he is not the only one who occasionally (or more) strays near and sometimes over the boundaries of Conch-L.
    STAY WITH US, HELMUT!

                                Linda