Re: appending my apologies

Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com> Thu, 13 March 1997 06:17 UTC

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From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
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Subject: Re: appending my apologies
To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 06:12:10 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <199703121711.MAA03618@jekyll.piermont.com> from "Perry E. Metzger" at Mar 12, 97 12:11:25 pm
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Perry E. Metzger allegedly said:
> 
> 
> michael_roetto writes:
> > Having been on this list for the last six months or so, I have received many
> > remove messages.  Were these people 'mail-bombed' like myself? Or am I just
> > being made an example of? 
> 
> 1) I, for one, almost always complain about such things, so no, don't
>    feel that you are special.
> 2) Being told that your behavior is unacceptable by fifty different
>    people isn't being "mail bombed". Mail bombing would mean one
>    person sending you a message fifty times.
> 
> > I think the response I received for a simple mistake is really out of line.
> 
> It isn't a simple mistake. Its a very annoying mistake that is made
> way too often by people who should know better. It is on the order of
> public urination -- something that causes no real harm but which is
> thought of as being offensive and out of societal norms.

Perry, you must have had a bad day.  No other way to explain such a 
small-minded and small-hearted sentiment.

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Re: appending my apologies Kent Crispin