RE: wasting everyone else's time...

[OzerskyJA <OzerskyJA@cmog.org>]

I'm thinking about switching to the Volkswagen Jetta list....

Josh Ozersky	
Marketing Communications Specialist 
Corning Museum of Glass

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Peter Toner [SMTP:peter.toner@adelaide.edu.au]
> Sent:	Tuesday, November 14, 2000 7:49 PM
> To:	Celtics@igtc.com
> Subject:	wasting everyone else's time...
> 
> Someone recently suggested (threatened?) to start their own Celtics
> discussion list, due to the supposed deficiencies of this one. I have a
> better idea...why doesn't someone start an "insults, sniping, and verbal
> abuse" list instead? It could even run in conjunction with the present
> list. Every time someone wants to insult a list member, he or she can
> simply dash off a heated missive to "YouBastard@igtc.com", and save this
> list for (even loosely) Celtics-related discussion. Imagine what some of
> the threads might look like...
> 
> It's just common courtesy to not plague the list as a whole with
> personal wars. Like many, I'm on the digest version, so I don't even
> have the option of filtering anyone or evn deleting a message...I've got
> to wade through all the crap from beginning to end. Martha, get me my
> hip waders.
> 
> For what it's worth, though, I don't recall Snoopy ever engaging in any
> of that stuff, even when he was on the receiving end for whatever
> reason. It seems to me that he's always been optimistic and friendly. So
> what gives? Did I miss something?
> 
> Anyway, here's hoping that a win can get the discussion going again. Is
> it any wonder why Bill Cooper has decided not to waste his time any
> more?
> 
> Pete