Jane Bird wrote:-
"However, "cancelling" someone else's events seems a bit heavy-handed. Is that what she meant to do, I wonder? Wouldn't a brief e-mail to you, Vic, have been more effective?"

A bit-heavy handed, perhaps, but if I had received 8 emails about something that I was not interested in in quick succession, I would have been pretty fed up with the person who sent them... even more so if it was on a mobile phone as was the case with Anne Lister.