Re: Please Everyone geoff replies

glen   why so offensive?     duncan   would it help us all to rename this
list    seeds-germination  ?
the present title sure fooled me       geoff

-----Original Message-----
From: Glen Seibert <gseibert@tea-house.com>
To: seeds-list@eskimo.com <seeds-list@eskimo.com>
Date: Wednesday, January 06, 1999 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: Please Everyone


>Robin Kirk wrote:
>>
>> fuck you, mcAlpine
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: McAlpine, Duncan G <Duncan.McAlpine@PSS.Boeing.com>
>> To: 'seeds-list@eskimo.com' <seeds-list@eskimo.com>
>> Date: Wednesday, January 06, 1999 7:02 PM
>> Subject: Please Everyone
>>
>> >
>> >
>> >> Please, when you post to the mailing list, try your best to provide
>> educational information or submit a requests pertaining to
>> propagatation/germinatation of a certain plant.
>> >>
>> >> This mailing list is not a seed source mailing list.  If you request a
>> certain seed, it is "required" you provide the germination process for
that
>> seed.
>> >>
>> >> When I request this from our members, I always get hate mail.
>> >>
>> >> I have had people request that  I change the mailing list name to
>> something else.  Like, Not-a-seed-request-list@eskimo.com.  I assume most
of
>> you have read the intro about this mailing list before you joined and
have
>> noticed that it says nothing about a seed source mailing list.
>> >>
>> >> Many of times I feel like dropping this whole mailing list because, it
>> never seems to stay in scope.
>> >>
>> >> I am looking into different avenues to resolve unsubscribing issues
and
>> possibilities of monitoring the mailing list. I am getting tired of
fighting
>> the battle.
>> >>
>> >> If you would like to help, do what I do sometimes.   Sure I might know
an
>> answer or two to some of the questions which I submit.... but does
everyone
>> on the mailing list understand my posted thread?   To create interest
within
>> the mailing list, I generate questions to provide a spark of life.
>> >>
>> >> I give up.
>> >>
>> >> For responses which only supports one person, please send the response
to
>> the author of the post, not the whole mailing list.
>> >>
>> >> listowner.
>> >>
>> >> Please read
>> >> http://www.backyardgardener.com/seed.html
>> >>
>> >
>You know, Robin, I usually try to be tolerant of folks who maintain
>mailing lists. It is alot of work and they are within their rights to
>request some focus and limitations..they are afterall spending their own
>money to make the service available...
>
>But from day one I've heard nothing but whining, whimpering, bitching
>and belly aching from McAlpine...moaning about this that and the other
>thing, getting nasty, aggressive and all together infantile.
>
>I've called him on it myself and gotten a token apology, to be followed
>in short order by more childish ranting on some other control issue he
>feels he needs to wet his pants over.
>
>Duncy, honey, why don't you pass this list off to someone who is willing
>to let it grow. Then you can stay home and nurse youre injured ego. Were
>all just so mean!  You may unsubscribe me too...this list has become the
>Duncan McAlpine facist state and bitchathon, and serves no useful
>purpose for me any longer.
>
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