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This seems to be directed at the list. I think it was sent to me by mistake.
Ken
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I felt really sorry for all the people who got involved in this
"controversy" about some guy who was an obnoxious poster. I am not an
archeologist and I don't know what this guy did and that's irrelevant.
I'm willing to take people's word that he was a ninny.
I have participated in a number of lists and I have learned a hard
lesson I would like to impart to people: never react AT ALL to ad hominem
(sp?) attacks. I know this seems like a dissatisfying solution. One
wants to clear one's name in front of the whole list. But the hard and
fast rule is to restrict such discussion to private e-mail.
I signed on to your list for rather capricious reasons, just checking it
out, and I was assaulted with countless messages reading 'Re: Lying and
Censorship.' and the like. My sage, unsolicited advice is that every
single one of those messages was a big mistake. They waste time, detract
from the subject at hand, clutter people's mailboxes and make you all look
like a bunch of idiots. I say that in the full and abiding belief that
you are *not* idiots. All the more reason for you not to appear that way!
Every list has its Gollums, it's trouble makers, etc. And ultimately the
more of a stink they cause, the happier they are in some strange way.
There should be a newsgroup for this sort of thing.
Alt.talk.list-wreckers or something.
End of sermon
Cheers!
Don Morgan
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Southern Institute
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