(#2002-3134) - Topics this issue: 1) instuctions on replying privately, 2) About what the list *could* be..., 3) please send prayers privately, 4) please send prayers privately, 5) Is it just me!!!!!!, 6) discussions on the mailing list, 7) Immortality, 8) unfeeling, more self-centered, more critical, 9) Immortality, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 20:01:55 +1000 From: "Shangri-La" Subject: instuctions on replying privately Below are the instructions on how to reply privately to someone's post, as I noticed some of you said you did not know how to do that. If you are receiving the list by digest, you will be able to see the private email address at the start of each post within the digest. Just click that instead of hitting "reply". If you receive the list via single emails see below: 1. Click the "forward" button (instead of the "reply" button). The persons privately email address will be displayed like this in the new message: ----- Original Message ----- From: To: "words List Member" Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 2:02 PM Subject: Digest (10/13/2002 00:02) (#2002-3132) 2. Highlight & Copy the private email address (which is on the 3rd line -- in this case it is my email address: shangri_la@hotpop.com). 3. Paste it into the "To:" field. 4. Write your message & click send. -- Julie ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 13:57:07 +0200 From: Juan Perea y Monsuwe Subject: About what the list *could* be... >As I said before, I had to unsubscribe from other Bee Gees mailing lists >because they were too sad for me. Too much talk of death, cancer, and other >illnesses do not help me. I'm sorry if I am not like everyone else who can >discuss death and sickenss and fell better afterwards. >And for the record, I am Catholic. >-- >Julie I think this is a very valid point, Julie (I am only a Catholic on paper). On the public list, there should be a policy to only post Bee Gees related messages (of course it doesn't matter if it gets off topic from time to time, when announced). Messages of support, comfort, or with personal content, should be addressed individually, with a click or two with the mouse button, or a touch of CTRL-C. This list, to me, isn't the holy Bee Gees church, in which we are all sheep from the same parish, with common mourning, masses and rituals, and some pastors to tell us what to do, how to think. Friendships and family-like bonds between list members can easily develop in silence outside the public forum. Lately there have been popping up some interesting things to talk about. Robin's new album, the rumour of his daughter, Mo's new astronomical huge house etc.. to name a few! -- Juan, with respect for every soul ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 22:02:15 +1000 From: "BOBBIE" Subject: Re: please send prayers privately Chris I'm with you mate... I'm just come back home after a six week mix of family duties and surgery to this... I think a fellow list member needs to get a life over this matter....not marcee and saying that your this religion or that one shouldn't come into it either... we all have our own gods ...but just by saying we're with you or know what your going thru isn't a capital crime... last year we were all scared witless over the towers and Washington, and we all had our hearts virtually torn out... last night in bali's tourist town of kuta had a car bomb blow up the main drag and 187 people are dead... around this time of year there are usually 20,000 people there... mostly auzzies and quite a few football teams to which 7 members of one team are still missing ...they were partying in one of the two night clubs nearest the car that blew up... it has been deemed a terrorist attack by both Indonesian president and our Australian prime minister... these crisis is equal to marcee losing her husband in my book... see you on the flipside bobbie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Pridham" > Thank you, Chris - my sentiments exactly! > > Mary Pridham, Adelaide, South Australia > > BUT, lets show some compassion. > > Someone lost a loved one, not just failed their final exam. > > > > .....----===*Chris... ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 08:17:42 -0400 From: "Anne Simpson" Subject: Re: please send prayers privately I feel sorry for you, Julie, that you feel the need to escape from common human compassion. Talk about hitting someone when they're down! Marcee turned to what she thought was her online Bee Gees family for support in the worst possible personal crisis, and it wouldn't have hurt you to live with the responses for a couple of days. The Bee Gees themselves would be the first to comfort her with a hug, and I'm sure would expect no less kindness of their fans. While I chose to reply to Marcee privately, those who posted to the list kept their messages brief and to the point, and I'm sure their replies helped her. Yes, I think you were outvoted. Anne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shangri-La" To: "words List Member" Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 5:52 PM Subject: please send prayers privately > I'm sorry for your loss. Whilst your request for support is warranted, I > believe the replies, and other personal emails to this degree, should be > sent privately. I joined this list to get away from that sort of thing, > which ran rampant on the other Bee Gees lists. > I hope this doesn't look too mean, and it is just my opinion. If I am out > voted, so be it. :o( > "Words & Music", Fans Of The Brothers Gibb > http://www.brothersgibb.com > ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 14:49:31 +0100 From: "lee meadows" Subject: Is it just me!!!!!! Is it just me or everyone else who joined this "BEE GEES DISCUSSION" Mailing list for the purpose it was intended, that is getting a bit fed up of people arguing and bickering in public! PLEASE anyone with gripes that are petty and personal , Spare us all by attacking each other privately. I am getting bored of having to skip 95% of the digests these days. Think of the other people who are forced to read through the stuff that only a few of you seem to be inetersted in arguing about. Here is a good definition...... ask yourself...1)Is anyone else other than me and the person I am moaning about / too interested in this? 2) Is it beegees related?? 3) If the answer is no to either of these just email them privately. Other than that .....have fun!! Lee ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 14:57:25 +0100 From: "Maggie Bleksley" Subject: discussions on the mailing list > When I read this Bee Gees mailing list each morning, and night, I do not > expect to see a constant flow of sad messages to start my day, and end my > night. I subscribe to this list to get away from my everyday problems thank > you. > -- > Julie > > ------------------------------ Dear Julie, I'm sorry that I feel the need to do this, but I'm sending this message privately, as I think the prolonged argument on the list must be extremely distressing to Marcee - far more than the original good wishes could have been to anybody. As Joe rightly says, this is not a discussion topic, so please can we drop it, for Marcee's sake? She's going through enough already without having to read all this. If I were in her shoes, it would make me feel terrible. I know I originally posted my opinion on the list (before I'd seen any other response), but I later realised that it was just making the matter worse. No offence meant, I'm just putting myself in the place of the lady concerned. Maggie ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 15:02:59 +0100 From: "Maggie Bleksley" Subject: Immortality Hi all I was at a function last night, where music was being played in the background. I heard what sounded like a very nice version of 'Immortality', sung by a man. I couldn't hear it very clearly, as people were chatting, but it definitely wasn't any of the Bee Gees. Does anybody know if there are any cover versions of this song? Maggie ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 09:26:29 -0500 From: "Jean Wahlen" Subject: Re: unfeeling, more self-centered, more critical I can't keep quiet anymore. Julie, I agree with you in so many ways about intentionally not subscribing to some lists (not just Bee Gees lists) to avoid the litany of sadness and prayers, but regardless, this can only be making Marcee feel worse and worse. Perhaps, as Juan says, there are many "on topic" subjects to discuss. However, many of us throw in little bits of personal information from time to time and it really does further our discussions when we have some sense of the people we talk to... other than just a name. Not a word was said when loads of congratulations were sent over a new job, or "safe homes" were sent before a long holiday was launched. One of our members is on an extended vacation, another has a new job, another still may be moving homes soon.... and now one of us is suffering a nearly unbearable sorrow. Even Chris, who has the difficult job of setting guidelines for us, does not have a clear answer. I certainly don't pretend to. But I cannot imagine what Marcee is going through right now and I believe that the bickering over whether kind words should have been sent privately or to the list is trivializing her grief. What may upset us for a day or three is incomparable to the pain of losing a loved one. Marcee, I am sorry for your loss and for our reaction to your sadness. jean w. ----- Original Message ----- >From: Shangri-La >Subject: unfeeling, more self-centered, more critical <> >I waited 3 days before I said anything. 3 days of which I had to read these >messsages, and 3 days which upset me for the rest of my working day. >Julie ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 16:29:33 +0200 (CEST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Ronnie=20Olsson?= Subject: Re: Immortality --- Maggie Bleksley skrev: > Hi all > > I was at a function last night, where music was > being played in the > background. I heard what sounded like a very nice > version of 'Immortality', > sung by a man. I couldn't hear it very clearly, as > people were chatting, but > it definitely wasn't any of the Bee Gees. Does > anybody know if there are any > cover versions of this song? It might have been the Donny Osmond recording. He did a version of this last year on his This Is The Moment album. 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