Tony, you send me an email off-list titled "Frank's Grumbles." In the
email you referred to his criticisms as "grumbles" yet in public you
refer to them as "aggressive." I'm not going to quote your private
email to me because you expressly said you didn't want to send it to
the list, but it seems clear to me that in fact the reason you don't
want it sent to the list is that it makes clear that Frank's
criticisms are just that -- critical opinions, which anyone is surely
permitted, not "aggressive," and certainly not pointed at an
individual rather than an issue, as your post below is.
I'm not going to continue responding to your posts, Tony. I don't
think you're genuinely interested in carrying on a discussion.
Maggie
On Feb 18, 2008, at 9:42 PM, Anthony West wrote:
What did this remark mean, Frank?
You complained a certain kind of internet work was very time-
consuming for you. Brian responded with an explanation of how he
did it without consuming much time. He sounded very helpful, to my
untutored ear.
So what do you mean, then, "your shift"? It sounds like a sarcastic
and hostile remark ... what a person might fairly call
"aggressive" ... but in all honesty, like many of your comments on
line, it doesn't mean very much in the end. There's a nasty twist
to it, that doesn't result in anything.
Equally aggressive is your irrelevant aside about the SHCA Zoning
Committee. It's well known Brian is not involved with this body.
Why do you drag it into a conversation with Brian? I hope you are
not trying to fake a connection between Brian and the Zoning
Committee. He's just a neighbor like you and he deserves the same
respect you deserve.
In any event, why should this Zoning Committee seek you out for
your assistance? Who are you? What courteous business gesture did
you ever make to this Zoning Committee, that might inspire them to
recruit your assistance? All I've seen you publish about this
Zoning Committee is complaints. Yet you take it as a point of pride
that you never, under any circumstances, will talk to any people
you're complaining about. Why, then, should they seek your
assistance in conducting their business?
You're obviously a good man in many ways, Frank. But this sort of
criticism is useless. It wastes the neighborhood's time.
-- Tony West
Frank wrote:
This must be your shift, Brian. Welcome! ....
By the way, no one from the Spruce HIll Community Association or
their Zoning Committee has contacted me about obtaining a disc,
nor has a single one of them said "Thank you." Sadly, some of them
only seem interested in criticizing their neighbors' efforts to
distribute a verbatim record of a public meeting. It would be just
as easy for SCHA to tape these meetings and put them online or in
an archive themselves....
Having owned a successful subscription-based video website in the
past, I'm pretty familiar with posting video footage online.
There's no need to school me on it. Nonetheless, John Ellingsworth
was nice enough to enquire if he could do that for me and I gladly
handed the footage over to him. I honestly don't have the time to
once again reformat the footage then upload it. I believe I
previously stated why my wake and sleep-time CPU cycles are
already in use. I believe John will be posting it on his own web
space and I'm sure he'll let us know as soon as it's available.
Maybe he'll be more receptive to your video tutorial.
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