Close your eyes and you might even see the spittle flying in one of JCO's recent posts. It reminds me of encounters with a borderline psychopath we had on the group many years ago. He vanished, suddenly, and without a trace. I was even threatened off list, as were others, with physical violence. There was another, also absent these days, who often became abusive and used four letter words with alacrity. But I shouldn't paint him black since I've used them myself. PDML has become much more civilized. But I learned, when I was still in Junior School, all you have to do to win an argument is make your opponent lose his temper.
D Shel Belinkoff wrote: > Civil? <LOL> Your language is less than civil. Your attitude is > condescending, you're rude and antagonistic, your tone hostile. What was > the "personal attack" that you suffered? Please be specific. > > You probably should be thrown off the list, although, as an advocate of > free speech, I will defend your right to behave like a jerk and speak like > a gutter snipe. However, I do believe the list would be a better place > without you, even though you add a bit of interest, color, and amusement. > > Shel > > > > >> [Original Message] >> From: J. C. O'Connell >> > > >> thats easy for you to say, you werent the one >> personally attacked (unprovoked) in the middle of a >> civil technical discussion for no reason. >> > > > > -- Dr E D F Williams www.kolumbus.fi/mimosa/ http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams/ 41660 TOIVAKKA – Finland - +358400706616 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

