I see you’ve taken it ill. I’m sorry, but I don’t take back what I wrote to you. I asked you to delete my name from your list of addresses of people to whom you send your emails with photographs, news, articles you’ve liked, invitations to conferences, sundry greetings. All that does not interest me, and it slows down my computer, particularly when you send me series of photographs that are slow to download and take up my time. I use email as a means for personal contacts, I read every message and answer every message myself, and I do it most willingly as I consider it a great means to be in touch and to help people, a means of communication that does fall short of direct presence, but which in its simplicity and quickness is much more than a letter and has inaugurated a new type of relationship in our times. That’s why when someone floods my mail with unwanted material I feel it and try to avoid it. I’m not talking here of Spam, which I also receive in abundance, about a hundred Spam messages a day which go directly to the wastebasket. I am talking about well meaning people who honestly believe I am going to like what they like and be interested in what they are interested in. And that is not always the case. I repeat that email is for me a means for personal communication, and I’ll fight to keep it that way. Please, do not put me in your mailing lists. First rule in Netiquette: “Don’t do to others what they do not like to be done unto them.”