Great points Walter, and there's a large group of us who have been guilty of same over the years. It's been interesting of late to watch the groundswell of meteorite community activity on FACEBOOK -- and how that "more personal" environment evidently mitigates, substantially, foot-in-mouth syndrome. The list will always be the list, and a wonderful thing it is. Yet it's amazing what having one's face next to every post seems to do to the general dynamic there. Anyone else noticed that...? All best, Dave www.fallingrocks.com
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Walter Branch Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 9:41 PM To: Meteorite Central Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] What?!!! Hello Michael and List, Your apology was forthright and sincere. Kudos to you. I have also put my foot in my mouth many times over the years on this list and I should know better. From recent memory, I owe apologies to Bill Mason, Sonny Clary Geoff Notkin, and the entire Jet propulsion laboratory. I am sure there are others. Depersonalization is what is it called and what we have to guard against. It is so easy to type on a keyboard then hit "send." Too easy. Easier than regular mail. We write things we would never say in public, not realizing that we literally are writing to a world-wide public audience. To no one in particular and at the risk of sounding paternalisitc (not meanding to) I often tell my patients, "just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD. With the privilge comes responsilbity. Don't exercise responsibility and you lose the privlige. Anyway, off soapbox now. Kudos again to you. Hope to read more of your posts soon. -Walter Branch ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
