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[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:03:00AM -0500, John Esak wrote:
> > Nancy wrote:
> > > Sounds great.  Mark is an excellent programmer.  BTW are you getting a
> > > rebate for the glowing review.  You certainly deserve it.  ;-)
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> >
> > Nancy - knowing Mark as well as I do your message bothers me.
> >
> > Even putting a subliminal suggestion in someone's mind that Mark
> > would do such a thing is coming close to denigrate Marks ability
> > and his business ethics.
> >
> > You may not have intended it that way, but that's how it looks
> > to me.
> 
> Normally, I would let something like this go... but Bill, I don't see how it
> could look even remotely close to what you are saying.  Nancy, appears to
> have meant absolutely NO harm to Mark in this statement and quite to the
> contrary. She explicitly states that he is a great programmer, amplifies
> what Dennis said about his software being goo, and then makes a pretty
> standard funny comment about the endorsement. Geez, I couldn't read anything
> bad into any part of what Nancy said or meant. It is obviously NOT what you
> thought at all. Just wanted to give a comment of how it looked to me.

Well hell, John; we're agreeing on something again.

We've got to stop that.

Yeah, I think Bill overreacted just a tad on this one.  Dennis'
comments really *did* sound like Mark had scripted them (no offense,
Dennis :-), but, like John, I know Mark better than that, and I'm
fairly sure everyone else does as well.

Don't let it stunt your sense of humor, Nancy.

Cheers,
-- jr 'just learn how to spell kudos, ok?  :-)' a
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