I note you are ignoring my plea to keep this thread
on-topic. You have
moved your focus from David's post to my plea to not muddy the waters by
adding a sub-topic about terminology and phrasing which you find
objectionable. Not sure that's an improvement.
Allow me to copyedit David's email, if it will
help:
"Perhaps it would be better if you accepted that your personal curiosity
cannot be satisfied on this issue. There are sometimes private issues which
must be considered, but would cause more harm than good to publicize. I am
sure that once the investigation is complete, we will all be informed of the
findings, sans any details which are of a delicate or potentially harmful
nature. I am certain you will understand, and that you merely did not
consider the larger issues."
Better? Longer, I'll grant.. but it says the exact same damn thing, except
for some flattery (I'm not the least bit "certain" he'll get it.) Only
it
wouldn't have gotten to the point so well, and probably would have been lost
in the thread. David's has the advantage of shock value, which commands
attention.
Marc Riddell wrote:
on 8/28/07 9:10 AM, Puppy at
puppy(a)KillerChihuahua.com wrote:
Legitimate requests are not attacks, regardless
of how they are phrased.
And criticizing terminology is expanding the issue needlessly. Shall we
/not/ see how many sub-issues we can drag into this thread? Just a
thought, but stay on topic.
OK, "go away" may be a "legitimate request" (actually, it reads like
an
order); but what do you call "you trolling fuckwit"?
Marc Riddell
Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
On 27 Aug 2007 at 19:27:25 +0100, "David
Gerard" <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Go away, you trolling fuckwit.
>
>
There's no "No Personal Attacks" policy on this list, apparently.
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