How about just plain looking at the person with sadness and reluctance
saying, I hesitate giving out my address anymore. It seems so many people
just want to send me stale jokes and old storys, and no one wants to just
talk. That way the new emailer on your list knows youre not interested in
that stuff.
You could do what I did. My niece, a young woman of above average
intelligence, started sending me all sorts of silly pass around emails and I
put up with it for a while, family, you know, until the day she sent me a
petition to stop the horrendous practice of bonsia kittys, where they
ostensibly grow kittens inside of glass bottles. I politely asked her to use
her common sensometer before sending me any more of this type email. Hmm...
I havent heard from her since. Do you think I offended her?
Diana ;-)

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"Julia Altshuler" wrote in message
news:y_h7c.53843$_w.852505@attbi_s53...
I don't know if telling someone what sort of mail I want when I give out
the address would work. I suppose I could try it. I've been reluctant
to because there are people who write notes exactly the sort I want, old
and new friends I correspond with quite happily and with no complaints.
I wouldn't want to assume they'll put me on a mailing list without
first giving them a chance to prove otherwise.


--Lia