Ok, when someone posts something to this mail list, a mail list that is for sharing German life and for having fun with our fellow mail list members who are of the German heritage it is VERY untactful to send emails to an individual privately telling them you don't like what they posted. If you don't like it, delete it and move on with your day. We are not here to criticizes other peoples emails... how would you like it if you got bombarded with private mails about something that you posted... we are not perfect and there has been nothing posted on this list that in some way isn't comical, entertaining, knowledgeable. Barbara for instance, posted something and got a not so nice reply so she stopped posting... Mark posted a nursery rhyme.... we all have different beliefs and tastes and if you are in a crowd of people and if something is said that you don't like in the crowd you move away from the subject and move on...do the same here... you are in a crowd of almost 400 people and the option is yours to read or delete.... Gail List ?????

Gail: I couldn't agree more. As an example, I will cite a news report of over 30 years ago. Apparently the makers of Vix Vapour Rub wished to expand into Germany. They put on a very concentrated sales campaign in Germany when the introduced their product, only to find that Vix, pronounced in German Fix, was a very vulgar sexual slang term. Apparently the Vix vapour rub, whoever they were then were very embarrassed, and were of course subject to a great deal of derision in Germany. If you go to Germany now, and catch a chest cold, you may wish to buy Wix Vapour Rub, because that is the way it is spelled today. Regardless of this, however, I would draw the line at Neo Nazi propaganda. The Baden-Wurtemberg list had a fellow join who signed on as HorstWessel@ etc. and while he was very knowledgeable, he kept spouting the Neo Nazi line. He was invited to leave the list. For those wondering who Horst Wessel was, just go to google and type in the name. My favourite German beer is Schwabenbraeu, only available in Schwabenland. Ralf Aldrich At 01:22 PM 6/12/01 -0700, you wrote: > > Ok, when someone posts something to this mail list, a mail list that is for > sharing German life and for having fun with our fellow mail list members who > are of the German heritage it is VERY untactful to send emails to an > individual privately telling them you don't like what they posted.  If you > don't like it, delete it and move on with your day.  We are not here to > criticizes other peoples emails... how would you like it if you got > bombarded with private mails about something that you posted... we are not > perfect and there has been nothing posted on this list that in some way > isn't comical, entertaining, knowledgeable.  Barbara for instance, posted > something and got a not so nice reply so she stopped posting... Mark posted > a nursery rhyme.... we all have different beliefs and tastes and if you are > in a crowd of people and if something is said that you don't like in the > crowd you move away from the subject and move on...do the same here... you > are in a crowd of almost 400 people and the option is yours to read or > delete.... > > Gail > List ????? > > > ==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== > To UNSUBSCRIBE from digest mode send a message to: > GERMAN-LIFE-D-request@rootsweb.com  and add the word  UNSUBSCRIBE  in the > message and send. > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > <http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp>http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp