Hello everyone! Guess what!? It's time to retire the following topics:
UFO's! The rights and priveleges of Lurkers! Other complaints and personal tussles... Please don't respond to these any further. Let the folks catching up on their e-mail have their say *without* further responses! Thank you! Now, let me apologize for not being here since yesterday morning to intervene sooner. I saw the UFO thread beginning, but had the obviously disappointed expectation that it wouldn't cause too much disruption before people would become self-conscious enough to let it drop. Topics this far afield *should* only be raised on the OT list, and if they come up anyway, you should, each of you, refrain from propagating them *or* complaining on list. Further, directly criticizing other people's behavior is not part of your role as my guest. *I* get to be the list cop! <steely eyed glare!> As for "normal" topics, yes, a great deal of latitude is permitted for health related questions and answers. I only ask that non-CS related discussion be handled more briefly, enough so as to satisfy basic curiosity and point out essential resources for continued study, before being ended or taken off-list. I ask you to keep the discussion reasonably close to our allowed subjects out of courtesy to those who are here who are dealing with illness and may not have the time, energy, or will to cope with boundless chatter. Now, please read the following specific responses to things people have said during this excursion: Sandee! You sent that first UFO post to the main list, NOT the Off Topic List like you thought! Always double check the address you're sending to, people! George: There *is* "another site for other things..." See the group website at www.silverlist.org and click on the Off Topic List link. Obviously, it's not a perfect arrangement. <sigh> Barbara: Lurkers are my guests, too. They most certainly are allowed to have opinions. If everyone would read the list rules, however, they would know that I expect comments about members' behavior or other problems be sent to me directly. In this case, I got only two such reports from long-time regulars to alert me to the situation, compared to however many on-line complaints that swelled the off-topic volume considerably. Kirsteen! To solve the mystery, go to Wikipedia and search for... "time zones!" <LOL!> Tom: You write: "Mike D. PLEASE HELP!!!!!!" This kind of comment (There were many others than yours, of course!) are exactly the ones that ought to be sent to me privately, rather than further stir things up on the list. Of course, I sympathise with your distress! <smile> Craig C.: Welcome back, mate! At least enough intelligence to operate a computer is required, I suppose? Connie: You are exactly right. It is each of you policing *yourselves* (rather than each other) that I depend on to keep the group on point most of the time. Finally, to those who find the UFO topic particularly absurd: Welcome to the Internet! I know that I would never have realized there were so many strange ideas out there if I hadn't met the people who hold them. So, catalog this under "stuff that people believe!" But do keep in mind, please, that Colloidal Silver and other alternative health topics are just as absurd to many people in the mainstrream as UFO's are to some of you... Frankly, I've met enough folks who claim to have encountered these things, and whom I've known long enough to trust their motives, that I just can't dismiss the topic as surely as I would have a decade ago. Gosh knows, the more I've come to recognize the mass hallucination which passes for mainstream news coverage and the "official" view of events, the less confident I am that I know anything any more. Thank you for your patience, folks. Let's let things get back to... umm, normal, please? <smile> Be well! Mike Devour silver-list owner [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [mdev...@eskimo.com ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
