David Eyre wrote.
>> > It would appear that this list is
>> > becoming just a question service. By that I mean people ask a
>> > question of the list, then arrange the answers to go back to the
>> > originator and not to the list as a whole.
 
Allen Dick wrote
>Actually, this behaviour is quite proper etiquette -- and de rigeur
>-- especially on larger lists than this.
 
>(For a number of reason(s) BEE-L never seems to grow much.
>Ironically , one of the reasons that many give for leaving the list
>is the amount of 'chatter' that gets going periodically.  Others
>tire of the same basic  questions arising repeatedly.  Some get their
>feelings or sensitivities hurt when controversy or bad manners break
>out).
 
Once again my message has been misconstrued. My observation, once again, is
that more and more folks are setting the 'reply to' heading back to
themselves and not the Bee-L. Allen does it every time! So if you don't have
the experience to note this you don't get your point across to the whole
Bee-L.  Is this not a rather insidious method of censorship?
 
>
>Actually, since this topic (summaries)  has come up,  I admit I have
>been feeling a bit guilty because I owe the list a two summaries:
>One on the question of disease and beekeepers, and the other on the
>question of oils for mite control.
>And as far as the essential oils thing, I doubt I will be able to
>summarise it fairly, since all the info I got has spread like
>wildfire -- right or wrong -- over the net and beekeeping
>newsletters.  All I can say id I hope it really does work, because an
>uncritical beekeeping public has swallowed the idea whole.
 
This last is really to close to the knuckle. To call us all "uncritical and
have swallowed the whole idea", you are implying that there is something
drastically wrong with us and the whole idea. Perhaps you would condescend
to share your research with us that shows flaws in the method.
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