can someone please tell me how to get off this list?
Thank you,
Robin Blair
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Powers" <powersrarebooks@mediaone.net>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <exlibris@library.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 3:31 AM
Subject: Re: Spam, no; filtering, yes.
> > To suggest that
> > booksellers ought to "go to the . . . trouble" to take the listing of
all the
> > email addresses of exlibris participants and send out unsolicited,
commercial
> > email (SPAM) is a terrible idea. I'd would hate to see it happen, and
suspect
> > that Mr. Powers mentioned this alternative with "tongue in cheek."
>
> Paul is right. I have never bothered to go to this much trouble, and I
> hadn't even thought of it until this controversy broke out.
>
> There ARE two lists that I know of where bookseller's catalogues and book
> fairs can be announced without anyone squinching their faces--Biblio and
> the Rare Books List. The former is clogged with e-bay announcements about
> Stephen King novels (or so goes my impression--I don't subscribe)/.
>
> The latter, which I think is a very good list, used to cost significant
> money if you wished to post announcements and items for sale (and still
> might; I haven't been billed since my initial sign-up a few years ago).
> But it costs nothing to subscribe. And since the postings are restricted
> to books for sale and relevant announcements, there are far fewer posting
> per day than on ExLibris.
>
> I don't know subscription info for Biblio, but information about
> subscribing to the Rare Books List can be had of Forrest Proper of Joslin
> Hall Rare Books, jhall@tiac.net.
>
> Cheers to all,
> Greg Powers
> Powers Rare Books (formerly Phillips Hill Books)