Hi Tracey: Nah. Am not angry or offended at all. When I'm angry I either say nothing at all, abandoning the thread, or I say something snide and snippy. I don't posts stuff about not posting.
My "ah well" had less to do with the content of the thread than with the problem of communicating by keyboard or by written texts. It was an "ah well" of tiredness directed more at my own problems than at you. I review books, post to online lists, get into heavy written discussions with Christians, atheists, SF-haters, SF-lovers. The upshot of all this is that I find myself seeing a certain safety in fiction, and in simply not commenting about any subject in particular. One can, for instance, write a novel against racism and even if readers of said novel challenge one, one cannot get into too heated an argument if one simply says, "the book speaks for itself." So that was where my mind and my "ah well" was...generally. Specifically, it was said because I had used the word "archives" when I meant "public posts." That brought in your comment about "public archives" which made me realize I had used the wrong word. As someone who has to have friends, such as Amy H, and others check my writing because of my heteronym/homophone and word-switching problems I was a bit angry with myself when once again I wrote a post which mistated my original message. Beleave me hive dun this kindle thing befour. -C --- In [email protected], "Tracey de Morsella \(formerly Tracey L. Minor\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From your reply, "Ah well. This is why I dislike the directness of > nonfiction in all its forms -- essays, letters, reviews-- words spoken > directly can betray both the speaker and the hearer. A reminder to me, > anyway, to stick to fiction and not speak too much or give too much > commentary," I get the impression you think I am accusing you of something > and I am not. I do not see why you think you have to back down from the > position you took. You did nothing inappropriate. You spoke your mind. I > like to think that as someone who abhors censorship, that I do not censure > people on the list. I do not think clarifying my stance again yahoo or why > I made the list public is censuring you. I hope not.... > > For some reason, you are taking my responses personally and as a personal > attack on what you posted. I do not think that is what i am doing. I think > I am making clear my actions and the reasons for them. I sought to correct > your misconceptions about why we were protesting yahoo's actions, and to > explain why the ok my reply as a queue to not speak your mind. I think it > is good that you did spoke up. As I said, doing so encouraged others to > express how they feel about setting the list to be public for temporary > public archiving. However, if I am attacking you , please accept my apology. > That was not my intent. Community email addresses: Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
