[WikiEN-l] Jayjg is AWOL

[Puppy]

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 at 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
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>> Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
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>>> On 27 Aug 2007 at 19:27:25 +0100, "David Gerard" <dgerard at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
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>>>
>>>       
>>>> Go away, you trolling fuckwit.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> There's no "No Personal Attacks" policy on this list, apparently.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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