[Cialug] test 2

[Michael Osten]

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On Jan 8, 2005, at 4:20 PM, Jon Clemons wrote:

> Mr Stout, the message Mr Champion sent was tactful and he even said=20
> "please" so he was being polite.
> I have met and talked to Mr Champion a time or two and he knows other=20=

> words besides ones that start with the letter "P"
> and some even have fewer letters than "please":)
> He was doing his job as list moderator by letting you know that was=20
> not appropriate and doing it via the list
> avoided anyone else saying it to you which I am sure a few might=A0have=20=

> if Mr Champion had not done so. Doing it via the list
> also serves as=A0a reminder to others that they should not do it=A0in =
case=20
> they forgot or were unaware.
> You are correct about some other meaningless emails coming through on=20=

> occasion and I have also seen some
> go by unnoticed but no system or nobody is perfect. Although if I=20
> recall you did do it twice in succession so=A0that is why it didn't =
slip=20
> by unnoticed:) =A0You have to understand the nature of mailing lists =
and=20
> some have thousands of members and when people send inappropriate=20
> messages it is an even bigger deal.

Instead of becoming defensive, it would have been in much better form=20
just to say "sorry, won't do it again".  We all have delete buttons,=20
but if everyone sent garbage to the list, it would cease to be useful.
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Michael Osten
http://www.bleepyou.com/~mosten/pgp.txt

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