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From: "Cliff. Johnston" <>
Subject: Re: [S-I] Unsubscribe
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:41:48 -0500
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Geez, a breath of life still exists here :-) Nothing like the mundane to
put a smile on the face of a genealogist ;-) Go git 'em Linda!

Cliff. Johnston
"May the best you've ever seen,
Be the worst you'll ever see;"
from A Scots Toast by Allan Ramsay
----- Original Message -----
From: <>
To: "Care" <>; <>
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 9:19 AM
Subject: Re: [S-I] Unsubscribe


> Yo! Care -- You're not the admin of this list, love. The first rule
> is....
>
> Only the admin admins. I haven't checked Rootsweb's latest rendition of
> the The Sacred Rules lately, but the last 200 times I did over the course
> of 15 years or so stuck here admining this list, but all those other times
> one of the tops rules for members was not to post administrative comments
> to the list and to let the admin do the admining.
>
> If you do it again I'll make you deputy admin and book a long vacation to
> a location with NO Internet access. I can't think of a nastier way to get
> revenge......
>
> I'm posting it to the list to avoid 50% of our members assuming that I've
> already left on that vacation and am reneging my responsibilities. The
> other 49% will unsub due to the nasty emails and fighting that they won't
> tolerate. One percent will send me a 'right on!' email..... Sigh. Another
> one percent will send a "Out of prison on early release?" email.......
>
> I've already lost the popularity contest, about 15 years ago -- and now so
> has Care and the person whose name I don't recall whom I privately emailed
> earlier (see, I DO do my job, so there!!) --- join me in the penalty box.
>
> Anyway, please people, flame each other privately (this includes me). No
> one else cares, seriously. If we all do this the list'll sink into
> lethergy again immediately. If you don't, you'll feed the flames and it'll
> continue.
>
> A little patience is all we need....breathe, there....it's over. And
> seriously, we don't even recall anyone's name any more who was involved.
> You are all forigven (waves hands). If you see any more annoying emails,
> hit the delete key. Your blood pressure will immediately begin to drop.
> This is not worth busting your annuryism over. Or however you spell it.
> I'm obviously American. So I can't spell. And I am too lazy to use spell
> checks. My brother in law has the obsessive compulsive disorders. I'm more
> into insulting people on email lists, telling people stuff they already
> know, mouthing off at family gatherings, starting fights in pubs, inciting
> riots -- that kinda thing. If anyone forwards this to my brother in law
> I'm in BIG trouble, as usual.
>
> The current admin Linda Merle
>
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