Market Farming

["Elizabeth Pike" <pike AT always-online.com>]

To: Elizabeth Pike <pike AT always-online.com>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 12:42 AM
Subject: List Novelty and Unsubscribers


> Please note I sent this to you alone.  What would have been so
horribly
> difficult for you to have sent your reply personally to the one who
> meant to read it?  Your defence strikes me with the same porous lack
of
> self control that I get for telling students they can't swear in
public.
>
> You're an adult.  Self restraint behooves you.  I don't need your
cute
> responses to someone else's complaint, just like the rest of the
list
> doesn't need mine to you.


EXCUSE ME????   I'm replying to the list since you chose to attack me
for my doing something that affected the whole list.  I assume you
mean my response to a poster about unsubscribing??  (You didn't have
the decency to let me know if this is indeed your "complaint" or which
unsubscriber-I get 300-400 emails a day, so I'm not going to bother
trying to recall which.)

I stand by my post & do not apologize for asking unsubscribers to
follow list procedure.  Letting everyone know you're unsubscribing is
like a complaint on a product-makes others not want to buy it.  After
too many unsub posts, I had read enough to think we needed to move on
& all subscribers needed to know this.  I was insulted that our
enthusiastic postings were considered a novelty-once again, if this in
fact the post to which you refer.   Farming is not a novelty, nor is
continuing one's education in their profession a novelty.

My posts are intended to inform & enlighten & share, my obligation as
a subscriber-contributions keep the list vital.  If you think they're
cute, so be it.  I can't hide my personality.

(Note: I had the decency to hide your identity.  Is this enough
self-restraint for you?)

>From now on, consider me a delete key on your board.  It's that easy.
BTW, I had several subscribers thank me for posting that response.
They were too shy, or too nice.  Apparently, something which you think
I am lacking, for which I do not care.

I hate sending this out to everyone, but I wanted everyone to
understand why I did not do it privately.

Liz