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From: "Kevin Sutton" <>
Subject: Re: Manningtree Message ("Mess" is more fitting!)
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 05:01:03 -0000
References: <023001c00dd6$77cd9ca0$179501d4@dlamb>


There, but for the grace of God, go most of us...!

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Lamb" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 2:18 PM
Subject: Manningtree Message ("Mess" is more fitting!)


> Hello all,
> Can family history send a person mad? I've certainly got the symptoms, as
> you will have noticed! First, Jack posts a message about a Manningtree
> train crash to the Essex list. Then, I read Jack's message, but forget
that
> I am reading the Essex digest, thinking I am still reading messages on the
> NEWMAN surname list (which I was doing just before opening the Essex
> digest), so what do I do? Only go and forward Jack's message to the very
> same list on which I had read it, and send Jack an e-mail telling him that
I
> had done so, and hoping he didn't mind. I even gave him details of how to
> subscribe to the Essex list! Not content with all that, when the next
Essex
> digest arrives, it includes of course Jack's original message, so
carefully
> and unnecessarily forwarded by me, and also my message to Jack, telling
him
> all about the Essex list! So, I write another message to the list,
> apologising for the fact that I had apparently clicked on "Reply to All"
> instead of "Reply to Author"!
>
> Apart from giving up family history altogether, is there any cure for the
> dire condition I seem to be suffering from?
>
> Regards from a very shame-faced David Lamb
>
>

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