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Message no. 1
From: William Monroe Ashe <wma6617@*******.TAMU.EDU>
Subject: My take on silly threads and personal vendettas
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 08:12:12 -0600
Once again I'll pop out of lurkdom and expose myself to the slings, arrows
carps, flames ... ah whatever.

I don't think that this list should be SO serious that no one can have a
little fun with it. But, at the same time I've noticed that the list
tends to take a moderately humorous post, or SMALL set of posts and drags
them out to they have lost what ever humor they started with.

Next I agree that airing personal conflicts on the list is bad form. My
e-mail is free, so all I have to do is waste my time reading all that
stuff. Some people have to pay quite a substantial hunk of cash. They
have every right to be irked at reading someone else's private catfight.

I guess all I have to say is use a little consideration to the fact that
if you post it we all have to read it.

Wait a minute, what does that say about the above?


Oh well my foot's in it now

regards
Bill
Message no. 2
From: Mark Steedman <M.J.Steedman@***.RGU.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: My take on silly threads and personal vendettas
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 14:33:18 GMT
William Monroe Ashe writes
>
> I don't think that this list should be SO serious that no one can have a
> little fun with it. But, at the same time I've noticed that the list
> tends to take a moderately humorous post, or SMALL set of posts and drags
> them out to they have lost what ever humor they started with.
>
Yeah, funny/silly ideas are all well and good, 100 'bravo, i ecliam,
silly' posts are another matter it uses up time better spent on SR
However the delete key is fast and effective :)

> Next I agree that airing personal conflicts on the list is bad form. My
> e-mail is free, so all I have to do is waste my time reading all that
> stuff. Some people have to pay quite a substantial hunk of cash. They
> have every right to be irked at reading someone else's private catfight.
>
Yes. Also note you don't need to send mail to list subsribers to both
the list and the person! When trying to read mail at speed it is all
to easy to want to make a list reply only to discover i deleted the
'from the list version' meaning i have to reset the addresses, not
long but again time is the thing i'm short of, for folks that pay for
email you are basically forcing them to download one utterly wasted
message.

> I guess all I have to say is use a little consideration to the fact that
> if you post it we all have to read it.
>
> Wait a minute, what does that say about the above?
>
Nothing to bad :), it adds to the discussion as its a reasonably
given opinion, no directed flamage detected, something that
thankfully seems to be nice and rare here.

> Oh well my foot's in it now
>
Now where did i put that carp :), really must go find it, but its bad
for bandwidth, and you don't really need it :)

> regards
> Bill
>
Mark

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