[Rhodes22-list] List etiquette

Fri Jul 13 08:15:14 EDT 2007

In a message dated 7/12/2007 3:28:08 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
rlowe at vt.edu writes:

Rummy,
I still have the email with the "rules" that I got when I  signed on in April
of 2003.  Guess that still makes me a teen on this  list.
I must say if you want to cut down on the number of messages you get  (and be
able to skip over the political ones), consider getting this in  digest
form. - rob

Rob Lowe
1976 Rhodes
S/V  Getaway

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----- Original Message ----- 
From:  <R22RumRunner at aol.com>
To:  <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 2:12  PM
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] List etiquette

>  Art,
>
> You are a fairly recent member of this list. As I stated  earlier, many of
us
> have been around for ten or fifteen years. When  we moved from the Sailnet
> list to supporting our own discussion list,  we adopted a set of rules that
> everyone agreed to at the time. I'm  sorry if some are offended by the
political
> discussions, but lately  there hasn't been a lot of questions coming forth
from
> either new  or old members.
> If anyone has a copy of those rules (Help Michael)  please feel free to
post
> them for everyone's  benefit.
>
> Rummy
>
>
>
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Thank for the posting Rob,

Rummy

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