I remember getting this on one of the first lists I ever joined, right after I joined it. I thought it was funny then, but now I think it's even funnier, having lived through the sort of listlife it describes for over five years now. So I took the liberty of cutting and pasting, and sending it to some of my lists who I thought would appreciate it - including a couple of 'stuffy' classical music lists where they do just the nitpicky stuff this post talks about, on a regular basis. (And yes, we had brou-ha-has on both of them recently, in which a fair number of people left in a huff, and on one list, in which the listowner threatened to close down the list over a lot of misunderstandings...)
Anyway, I've been getting a *lot* of private email from people thanking me for sending it on - seems they needed the laughs too!
Melisma (crawling back under her Rock for bed...)
