[oman-l] Chain letters & UCE

[Joachim Duester]

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Dear list members, 

Some days ago serveral unsollicited commercial e-mails (UCE)
hit this list, and now we are the victims of a chain letter.
Abdulla Baabood is right in expressing his serious doubts 
whether such a chain letter is actually a service or a disservice 
to Islam - as far as the maillist is concerned, it is certainly a 
disservice to the list.

Starting next weekend, postings to this list will be limited to 
subscribed members only to prevent further UCE on the list. 
Postings from non-subscribers as well as from list members 
posting from e-mail accounts other than the one which is 
subscribed to the list will go to the list manager for screening -
re-posting to the list of such messages will be at my discretion.

This will not, of course, prevent inappropriate postings from 
list members themselves. I therefore kindly ask all list members 
to post only messages which are related to Oman and are likely to 
interest a fair number of list members. 

I also wish to thank all those who are contributing to this list. 
Any comments, BTW, on Rashid al-Yahyai's very interesting 
remarks on Islamic family law, traditions, attitudes and social 
change in Oman? 

Joachim Duester, list manager
Oman Studies Centre - http://www.oman.org