Re: End of ridiculousness?

[aneal@cix.compulink.co.uk (Adrian Neal)]

>> Did you compose your response to Chris very soon after reading
>> his message? If so I would advise counting to 100 in future. <G>
                                                                ^^^
This wasn't to be taken too seriously.

>Here's some interesting, important information for some of you.
>I _always_ think about what I write. Upon reading Chris's message
>I was infuriated. Believe me, the original message was much
>harsher, and _very_ insulting. But I realize you can't write
>something like that in public, I have always realized that, except
>maybe in the beginning of my e-mail "carreer". But that's how I
>learned.
>So yes, I counted to 10.000 before throwing my message in
>cyberspace.

What I said was phrased wrong. However, even after counting to 10 000 you
still found it necessary to use vulgarities yourself?

>But I really want to get across one thing to all: THINK when you
>write. E-mail is fast and friendly, but sometimes words can come
>across very unfortunate.
>....
>There _are_ persons behind these little ascii texts, and some of
>them can get hurt quite easily. And I do have an elephants' skin,
>but sometimes I throw it off, because there's a point to be made.

Agreed

>As for my suggestion: I see it may have been stupid to toss it up,
>but during the last 15 months I have seen distributions of the
>strangest things via the Internet, however illegal or morally
>objectionable. So I figured _what the heck, let's say it_. No-one
>could take offence at an _idea_... Like it's been said, just say no
>to it. I can understand a simple no, even if it's in English.
>:-)

I can see now why you thought that, however you are wrong to think no-one
can take offense at an _idea_, look back in history, wars have been fought
over _ideas_.

Adrian