Dear David Perhaps when things are calmer, you could publsih a selectin of spicy secrets sent accidentally ; You could erase thenames and we could try to guess who is who. Wasn't there a case recently in an academic English site where two married people, but not to each other, explored a lengthly erotic correspondence over the list where all the naughty bits were couched in linguistic idiom like labial and fricative? . Barry S ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Lloyd" <dlloyd54@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Etni" <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 1:45 PM Subject: [etni] replying to messages on the ETNI list > Hi all, > > When you reply to a message that has appeared on the ETNI list, make > sure your reply is going where you want it to go (look at the email > address on the To: line in your reply). > > At the worst, an intimate and very private message may go to the whole > ETNI list for 1,700 people to see. I usually catch such things, but > things have been so hectic lately on my side of the world that such > messages could easily slip through in the future. > > And, when catching such messages, I have usually taken the time in the > past to edit out what shouldn't be there (sometimes the whole ETNI > digest), and forward it on to the person it is really meant to go to. > I can't promise to do this any longer. So if you have clicked on reply > without thinking, and sent a message expecting it to magically arrive > at a friend's address, although it is not their email address that > appears in the To: line - such expectations will no longer be > realized. > > And for those of you receiving the digest. Some of you consistently > send a message to the list by clicking reply on the digest that you > receive and including the whole digest in your reply. I won't mention > any names, although it has been a long and difficult day and I really > want to. > > So, please, for your sake and my own sanity, put some thought into this. > > Thanks, > > David > ----------------------------------------------- > ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org > ** for help - ask@xxxxxxxx ** > ** to post to this list - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** > ----------------------------------------------- > -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 2555 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message ----------------------------------------------- ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org ** for help - ask@xxxxxxxx ** ** to post to this list - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** -----------------------------------------------