Peter, I appreciate your request.
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Ruest" <pruest@pop.mysunrise.ch>
To: "Robert Schneider" <rjschn39@bellsouth.net>
Cc: "ASA" <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 11:06 AM
Subject: Please continue personal posting! (was: Moderating)
>
> Robert Schneider wrote:
>
> > May I add to Terry's good advice the following: please avoid sending
> > multiple replies to persons on the list. If your message is going to
the
> > list, put the asa address in the "To" box and eliminate the rest. It
just
> > takes a second to do so, and helps our mouses last longer, as we don't
have
> > to click Delete so often. Often I receive two copies of the same
message,
> > one to me personally and one to me through the list. We don't need
both.
> >
> > It would also be good if writers focused on the issues and avoided
> > personalizing and judgmental language. It is possible to express
> > disagreement over, say, the interpretation of biblical texts without
> > implying, insinuating, or characterizing the other as being against the
> > Bible, etc.
> >
> > Thanks to all,
> > Bob Schneider
>
> Hi Bob,
>
> I fully agree with your second paragraph.
>
> But - sorry to contradict you - I (and probably others also) would have
> a problem with your suggestion in the first paragraph. Whenever I am
> away from home for a week or more, I have to unsubscribe the ASA list,
> because my internet provider is not very tolerant of a large volume of
> accumulated mail. But I should like to receive at least those mails
> which concern me personally. With your suggestion, these would be lost!
> Please tolerate the little inconvenience it may cause you if the direct
> discussion partners (and, very seldom, a few selected others also) are
> addressed personally, as well! Others have repeatedly mentioned the
> simplicity of using the delete button.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Peter
>
>
> --
> Dr. Peter Ruest, CH-3148 Lanzenhaeusern, Switzerland
> <pruest@dplanet.ch> - Biochemistry - Creation and evolution
> "..the work which God created to evolve it" (Genesis 2:3)
>
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