Re: [CH]V6 #54 Administrivia Chile-Heads Monthly Post

Cameron Begg (begg.4@osu.edu)
Thu, 16 Sep 1999 14:33:57 -0500 

Hi C-H's,

So that Peter Moss does not catch ALL the heat for trying his best to 
keep this list sane; and since I haven't had a good rant/rave for 
weeks here is an excerpt from Mike Bowers' recent Admin. posting.

                                         READ IT!

>        Quote only the relevant portion of the message you are replying to.
>
>        Try to hold down the 'one-liners' and reply directly to the sender if
>        the topic isn't of general interest.
>
>        Please do not send virus warnings, multi-level marketing schemes,
>        chain letters, or anything that was sent to you with the request
>        to "sent this to everyone you know".  These are off topic 
>and generally
>        only start flame wars.
>
>        If it doesn't have to do with peppers at all it doesn't belong on the
>        list.

The worst offenders in the first category are, I suspect, people who 
do not receive the Digest, and have never learned how to cut and 
paste. Instead they do a quick "Reply to" quoting the original 
message in it's entirety. For those of us who do not have the luxury 
of full time C-H's List access and must spend a little time on our 
jobs too, we find the Digest a more convenient way of keeping abreast 
of the topics. Alas, recently it has become almost unreadable thanks 
to the acres of superfluous multiple re-quotes, HTML, styled text and 
ridiculously long (and boring ) signatures. I regard this stuff as 
bad manners or ignorance or both.

Category two, the "Me too!" or "I second that" brigade compound the 
problem by adding nothing but ASCII garbage to the list. Many, I 
suspect are new folks who just want to see their own names. 
Unfortunately though, I have seen some of the names for a few years.

The third lot have not yet been on the internet long enough to have 
received their seventeenth copy of the phony Nieman Marcus chocolate 
cookie recipe and think that even though this has nothing to do with 
chiles they are doing us a favor. Sorry - no.

And yes, we are all concerned about mercury in the rain in the 
Mid-West, but those of us who were "pro-nukes" in the '60's know that 
coal burning power plants have already killed more people than 
nuclear ones ever will - but what has that got to do with the genus 
Capsicum?

I should end on a lighter note. How about helium filled hab balloons? 
I want one!

Thank you for reading this far. All puns intended.

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                      Regards,               Cameron.