It's been suggested to me that if there's someone to whom I can' t reply politely, then I shouldn't reply to them at all. I'm going to take that advice. I've quit replying to Paul, and I'm going to quit replying to James and Russ.
Sure, that's partly because there's so much objection to personal criticism, but I'm making that choice just as much because replying to people like that isn't a productive use of my time.
That new politeness policy only applies to on-topic discussion, not to posts of which I'm the topic. And my pledge to not reply to those llistmembers applies only to on-topic posts. For instance, if I'm the topic, or if politics is the topic, this non-reply pledge doesn't apply.
And of course if I made that declaration about not replying to certain people after they'd posted messages that I haven't replied to yet, then it could seem as if I was using that as an evasion to avoid replying to those messages, as if those messages said something irrefutable. For that reason I'm going to reply to one more message from each of those two.
My reply to James is a reply to a message from last month. My reply to Russ is to a message from about half a week ago. It will be posted maybe in a few days, or maybe in a few weeks.
That reply to James will be posted today.
Mike Ossipoff
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