[Foundation-l] Expert board members - a suggestion

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/8/28 Michael Snow <wikipedia at verizon.net>:
> As the portion of your email making that caveat did not appear until
> after quoting another portion of Ting's message, suggesting that it
> would be addressing some other aspect of the discussion, I missed that
> you had hedged what seemed to be a pretty plain statement. Honestly,
> considering the significance of this responsibility, I would have
> expected the sentence to be qualified immediately since the point
> negates so much of the basic assertion.
>
> Meanwhile, there have been a lot of messages to read on this list
> recently, and I've learned as part of list etiquette to trim replies to
> the material you're responding to, as a courtesy to readers. I apologize
> for overlooking the additional context as a result, but I had no
> intention of misrepresenting you and I don't think it was particularly
> stupid, immature, or malicious.

Apology accepted. I'll classify it as "careless" instead. It really is
important to read the whole of a message and not jump to conclusions
half way through. I don't expect people to stop reading half way
through so my emails will frequently not make sense if you do so.