Actually, the one-on-one option is a potentially good thing.
If there's a disagreement, it may be best handled in a more private conversation, rather than sharing with the whole list. I think that even on the internet, one on one interactions tend to be more civil than yelling to the crowd.
And one always has the option of blocking a specific sender on one's email server.
Al On 8/10/2016 5:56 PM, G. C. wrote:
You wrote: "Does being on this list mean that anyone is entitled to engage in a one- to-one correspondence with you?" I believe it does Monica :) Regards G. On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 4:31 PM, [1]mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk <[2]mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: I think that what I was trying to say has been misconstrued - as is often the case with these arguments. If you are on Facebook - or Earlyguitar.ning people can only contact you directly if you accept them as friends. This list is different. Anyone can join, there is no moderator, nobody decides who may join. That means that everyone on the list has access to everyone else's e-mails. This facility should not be abused. As I understand it Martyn contacted Anton after he had posted details of his latest intabulations on this list. If Martyn has anything helpful to say that might help Anton to make his work even more useful than it is already - and a lot of people do find it very useful and are grateful to him for posting the details - then why not say it here. We have discussed this before. Does being on this list mean that anyone is entitled to engage in a one- to-one correspondence with you? Better leave it at that as this will probably be misconstrued too. Monica To get on or off this list see list information at [3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk 2. mailto:mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html