what is going on?

[Mark Mandel]

Please don't!
m a m

On 11/1/07, RonButters at aol.com <RonButters at aol.com> wrote:
>
> I'm concerned about all of the withdrawals from the list in the past 36
> hours--withdrawals of people I know and respect. Did something horribly
> insulting
> happen, or are people just expressing a loss of interest in a list that
> seems
> to be made up almost entirely of the following:
>
> 1. antedatings
> 2. rants about how people don't say things right
> 3. food terms
> 4. eggcorns
> 5. memories of linguistic experiences that took place years and years ago?
> 6. wisecracks
> 7. complaints about the world in general
> 8. privae messages gone astray
>
> I spend a lot of time every day deleting items from my Blackberry that are
> not at all interesting to me, and I sometimes wonder if it wouldn't be
> better if
> those who are interested to start a separate antedatings list, and maybe
> even
> a food terms list. I'm not quite ready to throw in the towel on a list
> that I
> have been with from the beginning, but some days I wonder why I don't just
> go
> away, too.
>

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