Ylva,
I have enjoyed and benefitted enormously from your contributions to the L. I would urge you not to allow the lowest forms of L-life discourage or deter you from keeping on. Look at it another way. If your effort and contribution were not working, you would not have attracted the ire of the vermin.
In the same breath, I think List management can work harder to identify and root out malice and unprovoked profanity. No one is entitled to be listed on this maelstrom. The goodwill and credibility it has earned over the years is because of efforts of individuals like yourself and absent that ambiance, no one would want to be a part of the list. So Gambia-L can erode that goodwill as quickly as it has garnered it. I wish to thank the L provider and management for their selfless work and urge them to continue improving the circumstances of discourse and communication for the better good.
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>Subject: Re: abusive e-mails/Ylva
>Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 22:52:15 EDT
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>Thank you Ylva. I have never seen the callibre of insults that i saw Matarr
>Njie send out to a bunch of people, including me, before in my life. I will
>never forget that and i am sure all of the people who were subject to it will
>not either. I think that Tombong's request must be fueled by maliciousness.
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>Jabou Joh
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>In a message dated 10/24/2001 10:51:31 AM Central Daylight Time,
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> > Greetings,
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> > I usually stay out of the arguments on this list but, as a long-time
> > suscriber, I have to comment on the issue of re-suscribing Matarr Njie.
> > Setting aside party politics and other differences, I don't think any
> > individual has remotely approached the level of viscious and pathological
> > insults that Mr. Njie obsessively directed at both the community and a
> > number of innocent individuals. If the list once again is allowed to sink
> > to that level, I for one will un-suscrcibe and I would not even consider
> > recommending this forum to other people interested in Gambian affairs who
> > would thus get an extremely skewed view of this community. Ylva Hernlund
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