Messrs Metz and Perryman
Having been on this list (and IBM-Main) for many years, I have appreciated the many contributions that you have both made. They have been informative and, in some cases, proved directly useful. You should both be proud of them. However, it is not for those contributions that you are likely to be remembered in the years to come. It is for the irritating and petty (at least to me) squabbles in which you indulge, where each of you seems to be trying to out-do the other in terms of insult and/or bad manners. It does you no credit and the list(s) gain absolutely nothing from them. By all means keep up your list-related contributions - I am sure I am not alone in my appreciation of them. You are not the first to indulge in this behaviour, but I sincerely hope you will be the last, and that you will both CEASE and DESIST. The list(s) will be the better for it if you do and, I suspect, your own self respect will be improved. Sincerely Mike Kerford-Byrnes
