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Subject:Re: Reviewers who don't review From:Al Geist <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com> To:Edgar D' Souza <edgar -dot- b -dot- dsouza -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Wed, 02 Aug 2006 09:26:01 -0400
It didn't annoy me. As you could see in my reply, I found it humorous;
however, any form of political commentary easy moves the discussion away
from technical writing, which is the focus of this listserv. I think that
is what Dan was referring to. It's hard enough to keep us civil when we
talk about comma placement, or whether it should be "e-mail" or "email."
Al
Edgar D' Souza wrote:
Oops!
Apologies - I didn't mean to be "political" as such. I was trying to
be a little humorous, and illustrate a point - that there's no
explaining how people behave. I'm sorry if the specific examples I
used annoyed you (that goes for all the list members).
And no, this wasn't any "going to extraordinary lengths to be
political". I'm personally disinterested in politics in America other
than as news items - I live and work in India, and vote here. I'll
apologize again if anyone thought I was trying to influence the course
of the next elections in the US of A through my post...
Ed.
On 8/2/06, Al Geist [1]<al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com> wrote:
As much as I dislike the present administration, Dan is right. There is
no need to go to extraordinary lengths to sneak political comments onto
the listserv.
Al
Dan Goldstein wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Edgar D' Souza
>>Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 7:25 AM
>>Cc: TECHWR-L
>>Subject: Re: Reviewers who don't review
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>>... We can ask millions of "why" questions, like...
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