RE: The Celtics Mailing List is re-opened

[OzerskyJA <OzerskyJA@cmog.org>]

Paul, 

What about my list?  Should I shut it down?  A bunch of us have moved 
to the egroups list.  What should I do?  I feel kind of dopey now.

Josh Ozersky	
Marketing Communications Specialist 
Corning Museum of Glass

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Paul M. Moriarty [SMTP:pmm@igtc.com]
> Sent:	Friday, November 17, 2000 12:55 PM
> To:	Paul M. Moriarty
> Subject:	The Celtics Mailing List is re-opened
> 
> All,
> 
> The response has been phenomenal!  Almost 100 of you (from 5 continents)
> wrote to say how much you depended on the list and were sorry to see it
> go.
> Many of you were "lurkers" who agreed that things had gotten out of hand
> with personal insults.
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> After much consideration and a few changes, I agree that we should not let
> a
> few rotten apples spoil the list for everybody.
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> - Paul -