OT?: Emailing from within filepro

[brian at aljex.com]

Quoting "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>:

> On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 06:48:00PM -0400, Brian K. White wrote:
> > Fairlight wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 10:12:25AM -0500, Tom Aldridge may or may not
> > > have proven themselves an utter git by pronouncing:
> > >> I suppose Mr. "M->", "Mark", "Fairlight" will pound me for asking
> > >> such a stupid question, but I am looking for some help and I do use
> > >> filePro (alot) but am not an expert in all things Linux, sendmail,
> > >> etc. I do own and operate a string of restaurants pretty well that
> > >> depend on filePro extensively so I feel I am worthy of posting a
> > >> question, even if it is stupid.
> > >
> > > Well after that kind of buildup, I hate to let you down.  But I think
> > > I'll pass.  What I think of you isn't based on anything -technical-,
> > > Tom.  It's a matter for a private discussion that will -never- take
> > > place because you're not worth the amount of stress it would cause me
> > > to have the discussion.  :)
> > >
> > > But since you want help in addition to gratuitously poking at me,
> > > let's cut through your grandstanding political agenda bullshit and
> > > just look at what you have on the technical side, shall we?  I'm not
> > > getting any younger.
> >
> > Mark, you're doing it gain.
>
> Mark wasn't doing it in the first place.  He was provoked.  I call your
> attention to the words of a sage:
>
> > Maybe this will help:
> >
> > The next time you think it might be a valid case for calling someone
> stupid,
> > or saying something patently uncivil like "you are not worth my
> > time|energy|stress...", apply this guidline to determine if it really is
> > appropriate or not.
> >
> > "It's not."
> >
> > That's it. Simple rule. Real easy to know if you are crossing the line or
> > not.
>
> :-)

That would be a succinct rebuff, if I were willing to accept your postulation
that Mark didn't "start it" and further that Tom's reply constitutes an
equivalent kind of offense as that which I feel Mark commited.

But I don't accept either of those assessments. Therefore I don't feel my
examination was out of line or hypocritical. (An Hyopcriticism?) Unpleasant
surely, but only as an unavoidable side-efect of being informative, where the
informative portion was more necessary than the need to avoid being unpleasant.

Leaving only the question of "Who says it was so necessary to say anything or
that you should do it?" Simple. I'm only speaking for myself , which anyone has
a right to do. As a group of equals we all cohabitate this space. I feel that
just as if we were all standing in a room together and one of us decides to
urtinate on the floor, that pollutes my environment, and so I have the same
right as anyone to ask them to stop that. If it were a urinate-on-the-floor
party that would be different and I would be obligated to enjoy it or leave.
But I beleive most everyone here has expressed a dislike for rudeness more than
once.

Yes, I do accept that according to those very same guidelines, it's your exactly
equal right to perceive what I did as unecessarily rude and ask me to stop it.
So I hope you beleive me when I say I am not in defend and attack back mode
right now I'm just conversing. Well, I'm pretty sure anyways, but who is fit to
judge themselves really?

bkw


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