Re: [Goanet]Thread: Abuse etc. - Marlon

2005-04-08 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- Marlon Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I should also add that your response to Rebecca and >your attempt at giving it a racial tilt has me >scratching my head as well. > Marlon, You are miscontruing my response to Rebecca O'Leary. I say with all honesty that no racial tilt was intende

Re: [Goanet]Thread: Abuse etc.

2005-04-07 Thread Marlon Menezes
Actually Santosh, Rebecca does have a point. Mario posted an obvious internet hoax on goanet, and later acknowledged its lack of authenticity. Although he and others did try to rationalize his logic for posting it on goanet, the admission that it was a hoax should have settled the debate. Pounding

Re: [Goanet]Thread: Abuse etc.

2005-04-07 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Before Santosh gets carried away with his own >triumphalism in getting a "silent lurker" to respond >let me declare his victory a pyrrhic one. I have >no intention of engaging in the mindless pedantry and >petty abuse that I have witnessed between certain >protagonis

Re: [Goanet]Thread: Abuse etc.

2005-04-07 Thread Mervyn Lobo
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > To all other Goanetters I would like to say thanks, > I have learned and laughed a lot. Rebecca O'Leary, Being a bit selfish, ain't we, Rebecca? You extract all the laughs from Goanet and give nothing in return? Unless, of course, this is your attempt at humour ;

[Goanet]Thread: Abuse etc.

2005-04-07 Thread vrangelrib
Dear Rebecca O'Leary, Please accept my thanks for your well-reasoned and cogent response. Although I am a Goan, and for most of my life have maintained close ties with the land of my birth, one of the main reasons I joined Goanet was to learn more about Goa and Goans---which was precisely t

[Goanet]Thread: Abuse etc.

2005-04-07 Thread rebecca . oleary
Before Santosh gets carried away with his own triumphalism in getting a "silent lurker" to respond let me declare his victory a pyrrhic one. I have no intention of engaging in the mindless pedantry and petty abuse that I have witnessed between certain protagonists on Goanet. One of the main reason