Bury? I see I have been unclear.
I'm not trying to "bury" a thing. I am saying this is a side issue, which complicates the thread unnecessarily with other issues. You might as well have said "No, I'm *not* going to keep this thread on topic, its far more important to me to move David's blunt approach and my objections to it to center and front. I will accuse anyone who thinks this is muddying the waters of trying to "bury" something, because if what *I* think is important is not addressed with what I consider adequate gravity, they're clearly trying to 'hide' something - because it could not *possibly* be that they disagree that OMG David said some Mean Stuff with Naughty Language The World Will End Oh My!"
If this is still unclear to you, I cannot help you.
Puppy has spoken, puppy is done.
Marc Riddell wrote:
on 8/28/07 10:17 AM, Puppy at puppy@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@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@gmail.com wrote:
Go away, you trolling fuckwit.
There's no "No Personal Attacks" policy on this list, apparently.
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