Gerhard, (I hope it is not too troublesome that I place the text before the quoted text -- I actually prefer it that way, and look! I use Mutt), thanks for the note of contrition. Let's all be sure we don't repeat this. Now that we've cleared that up... Next! And Ben, I've sent you a couple of extra copies in case you don't get this one. ;) Oh my, is this off-topic? How quickly we forget... Corvin On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 09:39:48AM +0200, Gerhard den Hollander wrote:
The problem with email communication is that it's only textual, and that while the language might come off strong, the intention isn't always to flame the receiver to hell and highwater and back again.
Sticking a smiley somehwere in the first 3 lines of the original email would likely have taken the sting out of most what I worte, and made it clear I wasn't trying to crisp.
Putting a 2 line reply (at the top of) a 200 line email is a p[et peeve of mine. COmbined with lack of sleep and lack of coffee this meant that I 1) forgot I was sending it to the list in stead of the sender 2) didn't realise the tone of the message was more vehement than I had intended.
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Corvin Russell