On Thursday 24 June 2004 04:16 pm, Amy wrote: > JoeHill wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 15:49:59 -0700 > > > > Amy disseminated the following: > >>>No flashing or offensively bold text, but I figured it was enough to > >>> point out which distribution you were voting for. Sorry if you felt > >>> misled, for whatever reason... > >> > >>You know, I could get offended that you're implying I'm stupid because > >>you assume I haven't been reading the posting. Just because I didn't > >>send off a post right away when I read the first message in the thread > >>doesn't mean I didn't read that one before all the other posting > >>happened on the list. > >> > >>I has assumed that maybe I'd done something wrong, because I had thought > >>that this list was safe and friendly and therefore I didn't have to > >>watch out for underhanded idiots who'd drop links that aren't what they > >>say they are. > >> > >>I suppose that makes me the idiot to try to make sure I hadn't done > >>something stupid before crying foul on someone who's posted to a list > >>I'd otherwise gotten a good impression of? And it makes me an idiot > >>because I couldn't read the messages that hadn't been posted yet at the > >>time I read the first message? > > > > ...take a deeeeeeep breath. He was *apologizing*. > > > > Sheesh. > > I'm sorry if I misread the tone of his whole response, but then I'm used > to people who use heavy sarcasm and often when an apology like that > follows directly after a correction which is phrased in such a manner as > to includes phrases like "...if you're intelligent enough to..." the > apology is usually a very sarcastic one and means absolutely nothing. > > So that's how his response read to me. Perhaps I've just been corrupted > by too much sarcasm, and if that's the case then I'm in the wrong, and > for that I'll apologize. You guys gotta learn OTlist Sacrism #scarcism mode on /#scarcism mode off simple
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