<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 6:53 PM John R. Dennison <<a href="mailto:jrd@gerdesas.com">jrd@gerdesas.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 09:03:42PM +0100, Jean-Marc Liger wrote:<br><br>
Mike,<br>
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If you think telling people "we'll see you around" isn't being<br>
dismissive and condescending you're wrong. You're not helping the<br>
situation at all.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Email does a pretty poor job of tone. Please note that up until now, I haven't been personally attacked on the list. The two replies before yours took it to that level.</div><div><br></div><div>By "We'll see you around" I really did mean that in a literal sense. I do actually attend conferences (and even their crappier counterpart the "virtual" conference until this COVID stuff is done). I personally know many of the people on this list. So when I say "I'll see you around". I mean "no hard feelings if you're not running a Red Hat OS next time I see you." I re-read it several times and I don't understand how that sounded condescending, but I'll take your word for it.</div><div><br></div><div> -Mike </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Also, could everyone learn to trim their replies?<br>
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-- <br>
Humans hate to admit error even as they stand there, black and smoldering, with<br>
the stub of a cigarette in one hand, in the middle of a wide crater containing<br>
them and the remains of a sign that once read "DANGER: VOLATILE EXPLOSIVES".<br>
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-- James Nicoll (1961-), Canadian freelance game and speculative fiction<br>
reviewer, Usenet article (2005)<br>
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