Yeah, it's Ian Gomeche here again Peekay er one thing I would point out
to you is that erm on the Al Stewart list where I had a certain amount
of grief it was a very small core who were basically causing me grief a
lot of them were posting to me privately and I was still exchanging
correspondence with a number of people on that list erm and email list a
little while ago and also I'm gonna visit one or two of them when I go
to California to see a friend who's a professor at the university there
erm sometime, well it should have been this summer but for various
reasons that's been delayed, but I'm going over there so I will be
seeing them, so. And, also when I left the list I ... I took 80 of them
to my Lord Gnome list, that's right the one I set-up and erm they were
all there through choice some did leave in fact there were more than 80
to start with but a number of them just unsubscribed but it settled down
about 80 and you know everyone was happy and erm so you know erm that's
not bad really considering that erm a lot of people actually lurk on
these lists and erm the actual active posters on the Al Stewart list was
probably you know only about [garbled] out of 200 which is the normal
ratio for these mailing lists of about 1 to 10 and certainly on the erm
Mark Thomas list that seems to be the same thing there's about 200
people on the list apparently and there's about 20 active posters I
would say it's really just a small core, I mean, again on the Mark
Thomas list there's a number of people on that list are mailing me
privately and we're getting on fine and I'll probably make some good
friends on this list but there are a lot of wankers on this list
timewasters who've got nothing better to do than spend all day sending
each other emails about god-knows-what they are just armchair-activists
you know all playing at being Mark Thomas I think it's absolutely
pathetic, Heather at SHAC thinks it's pathetic and there's a number of
other people think it's pathetic erm the only reason I've been talking
to Heather at SHAC is because you lot some of you lot keep going on
about how you're gonna keep phoning up SHAC to try and stir up trouble
but SHAC aren't interested in hearing from you they know I do a lot of
good for them and we're talking about all sorts of future stories I'm
either writing myself or setting-up on other papers on them and
obviously they need as much publicity as they can get also it's my idea
on the domain name...