[WikiEN-l] Jayjg is AWOL

[Marc Riddell]

on 8/28/07 10:17 AM, Puppy at puppy at KillerChihuahua.com wrote:

> I note you are ignoring my plea to keep this thread on-topic.

No, I have rejected your attempts to bury this incident.

> 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.
> 
I believe it is time we heard from David himself.

Marc Riddell

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