Wally Kairuz wrote: > as far as i know, that is not true, debra. i have been corresponding with > marcel and NEVER has he expressed the wish to be reinstated. i can't speak > for the rest of marcel's friends on the list, but in my case marcel has > never said anything about coming back or wanting to come back. > i respect everybody's feelings
Well said Wally!!!! and will add that Marcel has been emphatic to me that he does not wish to return to the JMDL. My missing Marcel in here has to do with his love of music and Joni, and on occasion his political comments with which I always disagreed but were always, ah, interesting. That people felt abused by Marcel, I grieved that they felt abused, were abused, and that my friend was involved. I also feel it is past time that we should be talking negatively about someone who is not here. That is not fair - and if anyone felt Marcel was unfair to them, we don't resolve that by being unfair to him now. There is a partial solution that should be available to most of us. If any one person is a problem in our email lives, set your filters on your email program to move all emails from that person direct to your trash. Just trash them as they come in. I have been guilty of wanting to say one more thing when it would have better to have said nothing, I have been guilty of reading something that I kind of suspected in advance would cause a reaction in me, when it would have been better to have just trashed the message ahead of time and not read it. Sometimes we are better off blissfully unaware, just letting the stuff go by total ignoring it. One crucial difference between real life and cyber life is that in the internet world, we can delete and trash those who abuse us and they are gone. We have the option, use the option, to break the cycle of cyber abuse. Think of it as your own virus screening program to preserve joy in your own life. (the Rev) Vince
