The luscious M* Laurel spoke truthfully when she said: "MRS. Honey? i believe you meant MIZ. a true tart never divulges her marital status." Implying that no-one's made an honest Honey of me, which is very true. Well this Miz Honey's in a mood because I just told you all how to behave, ooo, was it two days ago? And specifically, that no-one should be discussing ON the list WHAT the list is about. /me puts my hands on my hips. Look it's very simple. I'm the only one who's allowed to discuss list content. The reason's straightforward: if anyone else does then the list disappears up its own backside and stops being about anything else but itself. This is a classic rule of mailing lists and you should know this by now; the only person who knows anything about nice backsides is the very fragrant and dazzling Mark C. Please everyone who's posting yes or nos about what it's about please think for one second how completely self-defeating it is. All the information on list content is in the FAQ, and is not the subject of on-list debate, go and have a little think the few who are doing it. This is the last warning, anyone else prolonging this very tedious game of ping-pong will be unceremoniously cut off without a penny. If you want to do it there are plenty of other mailing lists where it is tolerated, nay, encouraged but they aren't here. No more please and no more discussing about whether there should be any more, or indeed whether we should be discussing that. Oh indeed saying sorry. Send a cheery mail about B&S related smut instead or something, and your soul will be redeemed. A few points of order and then I will go: o It is certainly bad etiquette, and almost certainly technically *illegal* to forward private mails to a mailing list. The copyright of an email remains with the originator. And besides we don't need to know about alleged insulting behaviour behind our backs - you can be rude to each other for hours off Sinister, because I'm not the form monitor in your life, it's just I won't have it on Sinister, because it's boring for the rest of us. o On a more personal note it's also staggeringly untrue in personal experience that "good meaningful relationships" can't come through words, i.e. mailing lists. I'm thrilled to say I've found some of the closest and sweetest yummiest friends I've ever had through this humble list, and I suspect I will know some of them all my life if I behave. I also know of a number of serious relationships going well into double figures that have happened through Sinister. So watch out! You never know what might happen. OK, I admit it, for once this email might have been directed at a few people, but let me assure you it's not just one, and please don't feel victimised, I'm just putting the house in order. And that everyone's still welcome on this list, and that if you send me personal mail on this, I probably won't be able to reply for ages, and please don't assume I'm therefore in a mood, email is tricky for me to keep up with just now, that's all. And therefore the possibility of the Vengeance of the Lord being swift and unforgiving if this isn't heeded is therefore relatively high, compared to, say, the possibility of me going for a jog tomorrow. But NO MORE on this please. This is Year Zero. Thank you, tarty ms honey P.S. Who was that at the back who just said "I like your earlier, funny mails"? +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+