Re: Friction

["Ian of Noss" <iansinclair@clansinclair.co.uk>]

Hello Katherine,
Thank the Lord that somebody has at last attempted to end this incessant
banter and stop fuelling the fire.Much work to be done, lets get on with it.

Yours Aye
Ian Sinclair of Noss



----- Original Message -----
From: Katherine Kurtz <kkurtz@iol.ie>
To: <sinclair@matrix.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 10:01 AM
Subject: Friction


> Seems to me that a lot of people are wasting a lot of time and
> band-width on getting upset over what, so far as I can make out, was
> an innocent slip of the finger, mis-sending something in traders'
> shorthand that those not in the know misinterpreted as insult or
> threat--and it's snowballed from there.  (Or maybe I'm naive and I've
> missed something to which I should have taken offense. Or maybe the
> long acronym came *after* something that has been interpreted, at
> least by some, as threat/insult/attack.)
>
> In any case, I think it's been made clear that the vast majority of
> folk on this list wish it to remain a friendly and polite forum for
> exchanging information and ideas--so maybe we can have an end to the
> matter?  (And if anyone truly is intentionally insulting or otherwise
> offensive, let the owner of the list step in.  We gotta play nice,
> guys, or it's no fun for anybody.)
>
> As a personal aside, I'd like to see folk being a little more careful
> about deleting all the extraneous headers and footers, when replying
> to a thread.  I find having wade through all those repetitions far
> more annoying than anything anyone has said by way of true comment,
> even if some comments are occasionally caustic or at least
> ill-thought-out.  All ya gotta do, guys, is make the extra stuff
> black--highlight it--and then hit the Delete key--putting it in
> absolutely basic terms for folk still getting the hang of computer
> technology.  (We all had to start sometime; this technology didn't
> even exist ten years ago.)
>
> 'Nuff said.  Katherine now jumps down off her soapbox, in hopes of a
> little less angst on the playground.
>
> Regards from Katherine in Ireland,
> who usually lurks quietly but nearly left the list herself a couple of
> weeks ago
>
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