Hear Hear Well said Sue ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne Cruise" <anne.cruise@ntlworld.com> To: <FREEBMD-DISCUSS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 11:59 PM Subject: Personality Clashes and The Discuss List aka FULL STOPS > Good day. > > May I please make a plea? > > This is a list for discussion of the FreeBMD project - its policies, its > methods and betterment of both of those. I subscribe to the list, and > take enough of an interest in the project to read all mails that come > from this List. > > I have been on the list long enough for the Full Stop discussion ongoing > at present to appear to me as its third incarnation. If I was fed-up > with the topic, I would automatically delete those mails with FULL STOPS > in the subject line. Mail programs have filters to enable me - or you - > to do this, it doesn't even have to be a manual problem. > > What I find intolerably rude is for mail ostensibly from this List and > about this project with the subject line FULL STOPS to be in fact a > tirade of a personal nature against individual or groups of individual > members of this great project. As a matter of common politeness I > believe that if someone feels strongly that another member should be > admonished, then a private mail is the only decent way to do this - i.e. > hit Reply, not Reply All. And an even better alternative is to take a > deep breath, count to a full day away from the PC and only then decide > if you ought to send that PRIVATE mail or if DELETE and forget is a > better option. > > If we, who are "united" in our aim to complete this project, cannot stop > becoming that famous typo "untied", then I fear that the mailing lists > will become _moderated_ mail lists, with its concommitant Big Brother > feel and accusations of censorship flying, to further detract from our > task of getting the transcriptions done. > > The plea? FreeBMD matters in public, personal matters in private, > please. > > Thank you for reading to the end - I guess in some ways this mail > contravenes everything it purports to be requesting! > > Best Wishes > > -- > Anne > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > >