>> >> I'd encourage you to keep that in mind. Also, keep silklist discussions on >> silklist, please. >> >> Udhay >> > > I have seen all too often that one can never assume goodwill. I will do so > -- since you request me to do it.
When I was relatively new to this list, I responded somewhat stridently to a post that seemed to me insensitive if not downright hostile, ad hominem, belligerent. Udhay and/or others reminded me of the “assume goodwill” rule of this list. As it turns out, I had mostly misunderstood the fellow who made the post that I had found so objectionable. I don’t say that we’ve since become good friends or anything like that, but in that instance I was about 84.343 % in the wrong and he was about 67.987% in the right. Yes, the math can get a little tricky, but the main lesson that I took away from it was that I was mostly in the wrong and that if I wanted to stay on this list I should learn to abide by “assume goodwill”. Which, I’m still here, what what? jrs
