Bathrooms on the Camino:

[Jessica Hopkins]

--- Preston Pittman <preston_pittmanaHOTMAIL.COM>
wrote:
> Greetings, Jessica, et. al.
> Jessica, you mentioned, in response to Linda's
> request for some email
> etiquette, that people could monitor their own
> viewing by opening those
> emails which seemed interesting from the subject
> line.  Imagine my confusion
> when I opened the email labeled in the subject line
> : "Bathrooms on the
> Camino" and found the following:
> >
> >I would definitely suggest the skipping. Although
> it generally causes many
> >heads to turn... :)
> >
> Did that mean "skipping" while looking for a
> bathroom?  or "skipping" while
> going to the bathroom?  It was almost as confusing
> as one last week also
> labeled "Bathrooms on the Camino" that discussed
> hats.  Are hats to be used
> as bathrooms when nothing else is available?
>
> My point, joking aside, is could there be some
> consistency in changing the
> subject line when the subject changes, so if we
> aren't interested in
> "Bathrooms on the Camino" we don't have to open it
> and fear that we'll be
> missing something we *are* interested in?
>
> Also, it would just be a matter of courtesy to send
> personal "thank you's"
> and single word agreements to the person to whom
> they are addressed rather
> than the entire list.  I didn't look at email for
> only two days and when I
> did, there were nearly 200 emails mainly from this
> and the Santiagobis list.
>   Many, many of the messages were fragments of
> sentences or single words
> without context and I had no idea what they meant,
> and they were clearly
> responses to some one individual.  Also, there will
> often be a series of
> postings - one after another - by one individual.
> Could these be
> consolidated into one message?
>
> I don't really think its a matter of "censoring" the
> list or "limiting" the
> list to be courteous of the other users.  In the
> same vein, let me
> say,please, that I don't mean this to be a personal
> insult or attack on
> anyone and I apologize in advance if anyone takes it
> as such.
>
> More pertinant to the purpose of the list serve - I,
> like, Jessica, am very
> interested in the Black Madonna, Goose Game and Ley
> Line phenomena along the
> Camino.  I am working on some more sources and will
> send them to the list in
> a day or so.
>
> pax,
> Preston
>
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