Dear Taylor;-
    Don't you dare unsubscribe. If you do, I will bring down upon you a Druid
curse unused and unknown since 2145BC. What you got to do is convince yer boss
that Whatever it is that he does is enhanced by the familiarity of shell people.

    Q-Man

"Taylor, Simon" wrote:

>                         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