If you are a GSDCA member and have not yet received the message Lew sent, it may be hung up in cyberspace somewhere. I got the message just twenty minutes ago, long after seeing many of the responses to the list. AOL, and other providers, have been having problems over the last week or longer -- that has been posted to the list by the admins, and the admins have also contacted many members when the list of bounces became very large. They asked us to contact any listers' who's names we knew from the large list they provided to us directly. I would personally NEVER believe that ANY member is being "blacklisted" from a communication TO the membership. When we receive messages sent through Bill, if you read far enough you will see that there is a link to "unsubscribe" from receiving the messages. Apparently, enough people have tried it, and often enough, just to see if it really does work. Enough so that Bill clearly states IN EACH MESSAGE that if you hit that link, and unsub yourself, you will have to wait until the next time he updates the database to receive messages again. How do you think Lew feels about having to send this as his first "official" message? And the other board members -- hearing it firsthand? And Gail - the private details of her personal life have become extreme enough to become public knowledge....and only because she had undertaken a very big job for the membership and is in our "public" eye. How many of us would like our personal lives and problems made public knowledge? And then people who have not yet received the message because of an e-mail problem to think they are somehow being ignored, blacklisted, whatever? You should be ashamed. This isn't about YOU! And I am not talking about anyone who wrote a simple request stating they didn't get it. This is not the time, subject, or place to even raise a question about who got the message and who didn't. Kelly Busse Wolfheart German Shepherds ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2005. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://www.showgsd.org ============================================================================