Re: The Ugly Incident Must Go

[Will <anomie -at- MAIL -dot- COM>]

Thanks Bruce for your gracious message. Your point is well taken. In stark
contrast, I got a message from another party attacking my worth as a human being

for the same post. Did you know that mistyping "affect" instead of "effect"
makes you subhuman?  :)

Bruce Ashley wrote:

> Hi Will,
>
> As an occasional guilty party, I must confess that you are right. We do go
> off topic a lot and some threads do go on and on and on.
>
> One of my earliest posts to this list had the same complaint.
>
> How to fix it? You can't. People on this list are just too nice and helpful.
>
> It is amazing just how long some threads can meander along for, but that is
> a small price to pay for the bucket loads of valuable information, advice
> and links obtained from those 'ramblings'.
>
> Remember there is always the <delete> key. It look me a couple of months to
> have the willpower to use it properly.
>
> But you'll learn :)
>
> Bruce Ashley
> OZ
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Will <anomie -at- MAIL -dot- COM>
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU <TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU>
> Date: Wednesday, October 21, 1998 5:37 AM
> Subject: The Ugly Incident Must Go
>
> >Hi All,
> >
> >Am I the only one that believes this list should be reserved for
> >technical writing issues? Please stop this interesting but TOTALLY
> >IRRELEVANT social debate. Given the logic of this thread, we should
> >discuss autos here since most technical writers drive one. I'm getting
> >so much mail on this out-of-place issue that it's starting to affect my
> >work day.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Will
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> >

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