I've been in charge of a mailing list on two separate occasions, and I always take the job pretty seriously.  Most people don't understand this.  They'll say, "Can you send out an email about this stupid little thing?"  And I'll say, "I just sent out the email for this week; it'll have to wait until next week."  I don't like to abuse mailing list privileges.  Most times, people don't even read the email in the first place.  If I send even more email, it's pretty much guaranteed to make at least a few people angry.  So I naturally get annoyed when other people abuse the unwritten rule:  Don't send unsolicited messages to groups of people, no matter what.  It doesn't matter if you think people will enjoy what you're sending.  It doesn't matter if you think it'll change peoples' lives.  This is almost inevitable with Christian groups.  There's always somebody who finds some stupid thing on the internet with clouds, rainbows, and a blue-eyed Jesus, and they think everyone else in the group will really enjoy receiving it in their inbox.  One tech geek said to just put everyone's addresses in the BCC field instead of the TO or CC field.  This is a perfectly good solution, but sometimes I like to intentionally send out the whole list in the CC field so that other people know who's on the list, and also to make it possible to send messages to the group if absolutely necessary.  I think there's a fine line between use and abuse when it comes to mailing lists, and it would take a pretty significant reason for someone other than the list owner to use a mailing list. #technology