Dear Kate et al,
You are correct. I think there are chat lines for all of
the nonsense.
Fred in Minnesota
 
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> From: Howard L. Clark or Kate Clark <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Chaff on Conch-L
> Date: Sunday, September 20, 1998 2:03 PM
>
> 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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> tel. & fax (593-2) 520837 /
> P.O. Box 17-12-379, Quito, Ecuador
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