Re: [Goanet]No apology required from Santosh
Cecil Pinto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Santosh, you need never apologise to me. Even if you spell apologise the American way with a 'z'. Cecil, Spelling is always important. This week I had a posting rejected with the instructions to run a spell check on the posting. Then the re-posting, with the one corrected spelling, was rejected because the posting would be funny only to some... Mervyn2.0 __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
Re: [Goanet]No apology required from Santosh
Dear Cecil, In response to your comments shown below, it is amazing to me that you seem bent on continuing this line of personal invective, in a discussion in which you added nothing, and after the main protagonists have stopped. You should at least let readers know that I have challenged you, on Goanet and privately, to send me some specific examples of where I have STARTED a line of personal abuse, as opposed to retaliating to the abuse of others, or where I have defended or perpetuated a hoax. I also asked you to comment on the precise examples that Santosh cited to show that I had abused him, and I showed that he had been mistaken, obviously in the heat of his frustration at me for asserting that the risk from needle pricks was indeed LOW, but not NO. Not only have you done none of the above, you are continuing the calumny and insinuation that I alone have been personally abusive. Cheers, Mario. --- Cecil Pinto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes that 'infected needles' debate had been going on much too long, but I think it also was beneficial in the sense that people will think twice before simply forwarding panic-creating hoaxes in future. The long drawn debate also brought a few worms out of the woodwork to comment. Hopefully they will continue to interact and contribute and not just complain. As for leaving Mr. Goveia alone, I don't know what to say. If anyone continues to be personally abusive I think he/she has to be told off by other subscribers. We can't always expect the Admin Team to step in and play Big Momma. Cheers! Cecil
Re: [Goanet]No apology required from Santosh
To all my fellow Goanetters, You and I are far less likely to be pricked by an infected needle left on a train seat than we are to be pricked by a verbal needle in a Goanet post. Somehow, many of us cannot resist inserting an insulting word into an apparently innocent message. For example, the recent extended debate on abuse is said to have brought some worms out of the woodwork! Rebecca O'Leary (no cousin or godchild of mine) got involved, and had some things to say that needed saying; I got involved as well. Neither Ms. O'Leary nor I are regular posters on Goanet, so the two of us must count ourselves among the worms. Or is one to be considered more wormlike than the other? On a related matter: Private messages are meant to be private. I sent a private message to Santosh that suggested alternative ways of conducting a debate; he chose to make public the fact that I had communicated with him in private, but stated that I had reprimanded him. I hadn't, for the simple reason that I do not feel I have either the right or the authority to reprimand another human being. I had merely suggested another approach. And I did not suggest he apologize; I especially do not think any apology is an apology, if it is worded in a way that leads to further recrimination. The point that I am trying to make is that there should be civility in all our debates. In ALL of them, and in every part of each debate. I don't care who started the mudslinging---the person who has mud flung at him, and then flings mud back, also winds up having mud on his hands.
[Goanet]No apology required from Santosh
Santosh Helekar wrote: In any case, I want to apologize to Bevinda, Cecil, Mervyn, Seb and Rebecca for using their names without their permission to poke some fun, and use them as examples of brain-washed people. Cecil: Santosh, you need never apologise to me. Even if you spell apologise the American way with a 'z'. Feel free to call me brain washed, brain damaged, brain dead, brain less or whatever you wish as long as it is meant in jest or as a sarcastic tool, as was obvious in your posting. -- Santosh: I also want to saythat Mario Goveia is most likely a good man who just cannot resist being hostile and hyper-defensive in debate. I have my faults as well. So I want to apologize to him and others for any excesses that I might have committed. From now on I will leave Mr. Goveia alone. Cecil: Yes that 'infected needles' debate had been going on much too long, but I think it also was beneficial in the sense that people will think twice before simply forwarding panic-creating hoaxes in future. The long drawn debate also brought a few worms out of the woodwork to comment. Hopefully they will continue to interact and contribute and not just complain. As for leaving Mr. Goveia alone, I don't know what to say. If anyone continues to be personally abusive I think he/she has to be told off by other subscribers. We can't always expect the Admin Team to step in and play Big Momma. Cheers! Cecil =
