>> To your other many talents you now add that of temporal bilocation.
>>
>> May I say how privileged I feel to be allowed to eavesdrop on this
>> dialogue
>> of one?
>>
>> R. (at 02.05)
>>
>
> I can think of a word or two you may find useful; "appending" and
> "clarifying". And no, it was the same exact perspective.
I shall humbly take your words under advisement, and consult the
spirit of John Murray.
> In the future, I'll keep in mind though that the softwae of this list
> may not be instant when I cut out redundant text so that people won't
> have to wade through it.
Not just the delay, the sequence.
> And If we're to have a future exchange, please keep in mind to be
> unambiguously polite,
I shall endeavour to do so, lest like Pinnochio, though for a
different moral flaw, my nose grows.
> especially when rudeness seems to abound in
> these poetry lists,
Not to speak of tendentiousness.
> and considering how you'd written your post, I
> can't be quite sure of your intention.
I wrote it on the keyboard attached umbilically to my computer. Would you
hit a woman with a baby? No, I'd hit her with a brick.
>I'm all for humour, but I think
> people can still both humourous and repsectful. We don't know each the
> that well yet.
Email is notoriously opaque, as has so often been said, when it comes to
matters of tone, so I'll put plainly and simply what I obviously failed
clearly to convey before.
While replying to one's own words as you did in the post on which I
initially commented isn't strictly a violation of list etiquette, it can
irritate the hell out of people.
When this is compounded, whether inadvertently or not, by apparently
attributing these words to another member of the list, irritation can be
fanned to incandescent fury.
Thus beginneth flame wars.
But I've had it with this thread, so I'll withdraw from it [the thread, not
the list] with the words of a better poet than I, Fulke Greville:
Now farewell Love, I will go play me
With things that please me less, but less betray me.
Caelica.
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