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Don't take it so personally.
With somwhere in the neighborhood of X-thousand people on this list (I don't
recall the number at the moment), Eric sometimes has to take a bit of a
hard-line approach to enforcing list rules, and tries very hard to keep us
on-topic (in spite of our repeated insistence on straying). His message to
you was polite.
As far as the responses you received to your earlier message, if you take a
look through the archives, you'll see that many questions have been
asked/answered ad nauseum. And the longer people have been on the list, the
more tired they are of seeing the same questions. Besides, I do seem to
recall someone suggesting some other lists where your question might get a
quicker, more specific response. In any event, it's always worth a quick
browse through the archives before you ask a very basic question.
So don't disappear from the list because we don't all get super-chummy.
It's a working list. Toward the end of the week, we sometimes drift off
into the ridiculous, but the personal messages are generally discouraged.
L
-----Original Message-----
From: Amber Young
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 1:26 PM
>>Amber,
Please take a look at the rules and refrain in the future.
Thanks,
Eric>>
Mr. Ray, if there are rules against being friendly and establishing a
camaraderie among colleagues, then I do not want to be a part of this list.
These have been the most horrible four days of my professional life on
account of your list and its members making me feel like the biggest loser
on the planet. Never in my life have I encountered more insensitive,
nitpicking, humorless people in one place. Please take me off the list.
Some of you are great, and I thank you for your hospitality. Some of you
need to laugh more often, to say the least. You may be expert technical
writers, but you have much to learn about the fragile brevity of life,
particularly your own. Adieu.
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