FunkySeb as Essexdog5@aol.com said:

I'm not formerly of the list incidentally- it's just that certain honeys have been asking me to come back on, and then leaving me in the nursery for 3 months. Arrrrrrrrgggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh!

<brief pause> No Seb, you're not in the nursery. This is a bit like when you told everyone "in another place" that you were banned and I had to tell you you weren't and never had been, so you rejoined. You can check anytime, anyone can, from the WWW page, who's in the nursery. Listen, if anyone, like Seb, thinks they might be nurseryised, or think they should've received a mail saying they're out and haven't, try a post, and if it bounces, don't just sit their grumbling and thinking I hate you, LET ME KNOW. Then you might discover that you've been able to post for THREE WHOLE MONTHS and not realised it. If your email still bounces, and you've checked that you're not in the nursery, LET ME KNOW AGAIN. It's usually something odd with your email client, but I'm happy to wade in and take a look for you. It feels a bit silly for me to have to explain that I don't sit here all day long watching for new subscriptions, and manually shuffling people between the nursery and the main list, subscribing people, passing on posts etc: I have a F.H. computer to do that, and it's not feasible to do any other way. The F.H. computer has software that's a bit crap, because it's written by me, and I'm a bit crap, but it gets by on the whole, and mostly it does what it's supposed to do, and we all get a list out of it. If someone new subscribes, it looks out for them two weeks later and lets them out the nursery itself, sending them a set of instructions about what's happening. If someone joins who's been on the list before, it'll notice pretty soon and silently move them out the nursery, because it assumes seeing they've been here before they've got a bit of nouse, and know where to look for stuff and who to ask if you're confused. Just because you don't get an email from it telling you you're out doesn't mean you should start compiling a dossier for a BBC documentary. For those of a different persuasion, who think I might have not been doing *enough* for Sinister recently, I'm sorry. It's true, I've been woefully absent and the F.H. computer has been the busy bee on my behalf. If anyone's really stuck with anything on the list, or has any serious comments about the list, content and whatnot, let me know. Finally chatrooms: we're relatively happily ensconced in our new home on the Undernet network, chatroom #sinister, and awaiting official recognitions. Holly is putting up new wallpaper and Starry is installing the drinks cabinet and it's all looking very homely already. If anyone wants to join in and hasn't, and can't get on having looked at the help on the Sinister page, drop me a line and I'll try. I'm having a right old laugh with Virgin, our previous chatroom suppliers who went all mean on us, asking them to put set the topic on the old chat room to point to the new one. They claim its advertising and their rules don't allow it: it's got to the level of philosophical debate about whether the word "advertising" is exclusively reserved for commerce. We don't need the topic set, it's just, I'm enjoying the emails. Be careful, children, the stairs are steep, Honey x +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+