>Dana certainly is correct, but it was quite sobering to see what
>goes on in 'private'.  I would hope that Robert A. Alexander's type of
>pmail is very rare

unfortunately it is !

as it could drive good

Boring ?

 people from the list.  And I
>agree that the list administrator should be called in and a sever
>warning given.  I also agree with Sam Bateman that in the end, we
>are all responsible for the list.   malcolm s
>
>Dana wrote:
>
>> It is not good form to post p-mail to the list when one of the parties may
>> not want the post to go public.  A better route would be to forward said
>> post to the administrator if it is felt necessary to do so. -Dana-

Folks, this is not townhall or congress or anything of a body that sort but
definetely representative for all kind of communities micro or macro.
Have the same tolerance that you use in response to somebody's tirequestions
or "oilwarning etc."postings and/or just delete the message -

thanks

I vote for Bob !