Re: Contact off-list/on-list

Subject: Re: Contact off-list/on-list
From: Tom Murrell <trmurrell -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 10:52:28 -0700 (PDT)


--- Dick Margulis <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net> wrote:
>
> Is there any way to determine a priori whether it is better to
> disagree with you in private or in public? Is there a general rule of
> netiquette that everyone but me knows about? Or should I just resolve to
> agree with what everyone says, regardless of the logical impossibility of
> doing so, and be done with it?

Beats me, Dick. Either few people read my posts/responses or I fail to inspire
vituperation. Now, while all the little people scuttle off to their
dictionaries... :-)

I will usually limit my off-list comments to either "Me, too" or some sort of
compliment for something the poster wrote. I'll respond onlist if I feel I can
usefully address something in a topic that I haven't already seen, especially
if I disagree. (Whether I actually add to a topic is for others to determine.)

So far, and I hardly read every post here, I haven't seen you write anything
inflamatory, and I hope you will continue providing your honest commentary to
the list. I don't know what's up with those people who don't want you to
respond, either onlist or offlist.

BTW, you've always been nice to me offlist, so again, I don't know what others'
beefs may be.

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Contact off-list/on-list (was Re: SLAVE labor?...): From: Dick Margulis

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