Dear members:
As most of you know, we strive for an above average level of civility and general-nice person demeanor on this Classic Rendezvous e-mail list. We have a slip up now and then, but I would defend all of you as being great folks who are polite and decent in your exchanges with one another. It's a genuine point of pride!
It has come to my attention that a number of interested persons, not CR members, read the CR list via the archives and then write to CR members, sometimes with legitimate observations and sometimes with acrimonious messages...
My thoughts are clear on this.. It is against the CR rules to send attack or ugly messages, even off list, as a result of someones CR participation. But if a person is not a member, it is difficult to take any action to prevent this. So I am proposing, indeed requesting of you all, that if any of you receive unsolicited and unpleasant messages about the CR list activities, please publsh them ("out" them) in their entirety here on the CR list for all to see. This will show all readers the nature of the malevolence and make those outside parties think twice before sending nasty e-mails.
Hopefull soon therafter none of us will be bothered by such silliness.
Thanks Dale
Dale Browm
List owner & web master
Classicrendezvous.com
Greensboro, NC USA