Marcel,

Debra's reply went to you AND THE LIST.  This not the same 
as personal e-mail!  Your "proof delivered" is nothing of
the sort. 

What people have repeatedly objected to are *personal* e-mails.
By that, I mean e-mail messages addressed *solely* to them.

An email message To the list and CCd to someone else is not 
personal. An email To someone specific which is CCd to the 
list is not personal.  The mechanics of e-mail clients are
such that occasionally both the originator's e-mail address
and the list's e-mail address both end up in the recipient
headers of a reply message. We all have to live with that, 
and remember to check the headers to see where the message 
was destined.

I'm interested that you said "when have the Israelis ever 
done what the Islamics did yesterday. Attack some distant 
country and murder 10-20,000 people".  I find this fascinating
in the light of the fact that Islamic people the world over
are seeking to distance themselves from this attack, and
*whatever* organisation perpetrated it, and to NOT be tarred
with the same brush as the terrorists.  Your statement
leaves me with a very bad taste in my mouth.  It's just
like me saying "all Americans are red-neck assholes".  A
complete and unjust generalisation. 

> I have categorically demanded that they delete my posts.

This is nowhere near the same magnitude as people asking you 
not to e-mail them privately with a message that isn't also 
CCd to the list at large.  It's like sending junk mail to 
a million people but saying at the top "If your name is
foo, bar, or blat, please throw this in the bin now, or
I'll take it as a personal affront if you don't, and
happen to object to the contents of this letter".

Bah. 

--Chris

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