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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:43:25 -0600
- Sender: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
- From: Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
- Subject: Re: signoff
- Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
- In-Reply-To: <199301222222.AA07454@formby.tenet.edu>
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- On Fri, 22 Jan 1993, Peter Montgomery wrote:
-
- > > I've enjoyed your company but I can't keep up with the traffic. Could
- someone
- >
- > I've had it suggested to me that subscribing to WORDS-L could be comnsidered
- > an abuse of resources because it breaks proper list etiquette by allowing
- > use of the list for virtually personal conversation and in the process puts
- > very undue strain on the systems of the subscribers. Supposedly personal
-
- Whoever suggested that is precisely the type of person who doesn't belong
- on Words-L. To borrow a phrase from GT, they're overly anal-retentive
- pillocks.
-
- In short, they can go stuff it.
-
- -abh
-