[Foundation-l] Top posters

Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen at gmail.com
Sun Mar 2 13:03:38 UTC 2008


Hoi,
If I killed you, there would be two spots open for this race :) the question
is would it make the list more functional?
Thanks,
    GerardM

On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 02/03/2008, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> > Mark Williamson wrote:
> >  > i'm just disappointed i didn't even place. can i get a consolation
> >  > prize? speaking from experience, whoever is at the top (i dont
> >  > recall), theyre basically tellingyou to turn it down a little or face
> >  > moderationbut as politely as psosible.
> >  >
> >
> > ?? But you're in there with 16.
>
> "place" means top 3 - horse racing term. (Don't kill me, I can't help
> myself! ;))
>
> >  I see that my total has dropped.  I engaged in a positive but easy act
> >  of self-discipline.  Whenever I disagree with one of Thomas' posts I
> ask
> >  myself, "Do I really need to answer this?"  It works wonders.
>
> I ask myself "Is my answer at all useful?", which is "yes" rather more
> often than your question, so might explain the larger number of
> emails. I do often realise that it's "no" halfway through writing a
> reply and discard it, or discard it while proof reading - the 46 I
> clicked "send" on were the best 46 out of quite a few more, so count
> yourselves lucky! ;)
>
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