Melani: I'm responding to you in a collegial manner; there has been too much acr imony and disappointment on the list this week. Thus, let me make a few caring suggestions: 1) If the communication isn't Offlist, don't include the word in the title, since it creates an inaccurate impression. Imagine how other people on the list may have initially interpreted your post as a threat rather than a question.
2) Turn your Sig Line on and off as appropriate for your communication, if for no other reason than to protect the good name of your Broker of Record. Your accompanying post does not seem to render any kind of information or opinion about the practice of real estate as regulated by the Commission, while it suggests you may be named the defendant in a legal action. When you needlessly include Urban & Bye Realtor's name, you may risk besmirching your employer's valuable name, raise questions about his oversight of your employment, the presence and nature of his employer/employee corporate oversight policies, and may force him to evaluate the nature and/or need for the implementation of a corporate policy regarding the transmittal and storage of email communications that include his name and via whose email servers. 3) Just like in real estate, in law you get that for which you pay. Saying I am sorry to someone, who you inappropriately accused of dishonesty might be hard but it is the courageous and appropriate path to doing the right thing and can salve wounds a lot more efficiently than paying a defense attorney $350 per hour for consults. On several occasions attorneys representing my wife told her, "guys like me always have money hidden away; its just a matter of finding it." You are a very public success in real estate, with a somewhat acerbic manner. You make yourself a great target for a wounded protagonist and an aggressive Philadelphia Attorney. Best wishes, Craig In a message dated 6/7/2007 7:34:39 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A person with whom I don't communicate offlist has sent me the following email, with the subject line shown above. Perhaps the attorneys on the list can let me know if I've libeled anyone in the quoted section which I wrote. The person's response follows the quote of my writing: << In a message dated 6/7/2007 6:41:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Al Krigman has already told the list how delighted he is to be able to use this incident - caused by Councilwoman Blackwell, John Fenton, the student, the Daily News and perhaps Tom Knox - to rally people against the UCD so he can try once again to kill the proposal where landlords would pay a small share of the cost of UCD's work. Well, a good portion of the money the landlords would pay under the Business Improvement District initiative would be to EXPAND THE CLEAN AND SAFE EFFORTS John Fenton has been heading. So list members, help Al out here, and if John has a job, it will be limited - in scope, and perhaps in time, too. How long do you think the institutions will continue to pay the wages of John and his coworkers, if the community wants the services, but bedevils the institutions for funding it? Be careful or I'll start looking into a libel suit. I'm getting a bit weary of your shit.>> - Melani Lamond Melani Lamond, Associate Broker Urban & Bye, Realtor 3529 Lancaster Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19104 cell phone 215-356-7266 office phone 215-222-4800, ext. 113 office fax 215-222-1101 ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
