[WikiEN-l] Tact: a how-to guide

[Poor, Edmund W]

Jesse,

It's not easy to express oneself tactfully when writing on a mailing list. You do well, young Jedi, and all applaud your humility and courage.

Ah, the art of mannerly missives is surely lost in these latter days. 
One longs for the leisured prose of yesteryear, books such as Ivanhoe and The Lord of the Rings.

A word of advice, if I may -- learn from one who has been burnt many times by the wax dripping from his own candle, as it were.

Take pains, ye that would be tactful, to emphasize all the wonderful things about those ye would address. Forbear to imply or even hint anything critical about any individual, but express the confidence that all members of this august company are equally ardent supporters of all that is just and good.

Uncle Ed Poor

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