MikeN said:
> There are some of us on this list who joined bikies to read, contribute
> and learn from the kind of in depth discussion that Matt, Eric, Darryl
> and Dar were generous enough to share over the weekend so please let's
> not discourage that kind of communication by belittling it. Tough issue
> debates don't always produce an immediate answer.
It wasn't the "in depth discussion" to which I was objecting, but the tone
leaning toward personal attack that put me off. Also, you focus the discussion
much more clearly if you employ the most basic of email courtesy of trimming
the text to the relevant points. If the very same long text gets repeated
several times (and not in correct sequence but just indiscriminately dumped on
the end of each segment) in the same day's posts, any new contribution gets
buried in the bit wasteland. If you're responding to a particular point, quote
that sentence or two and follow it with your response/refutation/whatever to
help readers follow the argument you are trying to make. Otherwise, you don't
reach your audience anyway, so why bother?
[I'm awaiting MikeB's smarmy response ;-) ]
Now go have a beer,
Bob Paolino
"Are Canadians just Americans who carry hockey
sticks instead of guns,
or is there more to it than that?"
--"This Canadian Existence"
Wisconsin Public Radio
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