Garbage Man said in a message to Gaurav Gupte:

 GM> This is a message to see if you are still posting in this
 GM> conference at this time.  I need to receive a response
 GM> within a week, or I will have to drop you from the
 GM> tournament.  Thank you.

John, one message To: All, listing the names of each of the persons you
were concerned about would have been more appropriate.

It's generally considered impolite, and a waste of 'bandwidth' to post
multiple identical messages to different addressees in echomail, since
everybody can read every message.

lawrence{at}garvin.hd.co.harris.tx.us 
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