Ben, Thank you for your gracious complement. Since you would probably qualify as one of our valuable, venerable characters, your words of approval are especially appreciated.
"Brothers and sisters, keep them cards and letters coming!" :-) Lee -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben Okopnik Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 4:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] Among friends On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 04:01:08PM -0600, Lee Huddleston wrote: > We are friends here. And we are human. We should not expect our friends to > be perfect (might not be our friends if they were). Certainly we are not > perfect. In fact, on this list we value characters. It keeps the list from > getting boring. [...] > Besides, I want to be able to ask stupid questions and post stupid answers. > Sometimes on this list a stupid question gets a truly brilliant answer. Lee, I hope you realize that you have just - in a manner of speaking - have given a brilliant answer to (and I most emphatically do not mean Walter's original query) a stupid question. Very well done, sir. And just to emphasize: I agree completely. If I couldn't ask a stupid question here once in a while, I wouldn't want to be here. None of us are perfect; we forget things, we get brain-lock on the simplest topics... there are times when we just need a tiny bit of help to get over the hump. I'd hate to see anything exercising a chilling effect on that. > I am not suggesting that we encourage political discussions on the list. I > am suggesting that when someone does write an e-mail that you think crosses > the line, either ignore it and move on (when you stir cow patties they begin > to smell) or write to the person off-list asking (not ordering) them to > stop. And, if you are asked to stop a line of discussion, please seriously > consider complying even if you don't see how it was offensive. We are all > sensitive about certain topics. Try to avoid stepping on people's toes and > then criticizing them for having too big of feet. Thank you for putting that into words. Very, very well said. Ben -- OKOPNIK CONSULTING Custom Computing Solutions For Your Business Expert-led Training | Dynamic, vital websites | Custom programming 443-250-7895 http://okopnik.com http://twitter.com/okopnik _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
