atw: Re: The gratuitously nasty list
- From: Ana Young <ana_young2000@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:54:08 -0800 (PST)
Well done!
I stopped (a long time ago) sending suggestions and/or comments to the list
because of that attitude. Now, if I have something that I feel can help the
person, I email the person directly.
--- On Fri, 20/11/09, Ken Randall <kenneth_james_randall@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Ken Randall <kenneth_james_randall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: atw: Re: The gratuitously nasty list
> To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Received: Friday, 20 November, 2009, 7:40 PM
> I
> would like to second the motion.
>
> The flaming rules for this list are restricted to a
> prohibition
> on particular words like "fool"
> etc. However, saying that
> someone is talking "arrant nonsense" boils
> down to the same
> thing. Persons perceived as wise and
> knowledgeable are not
> said to be talking "arrant
> nonsense". Expressions like "%&*%
> off"
> are not directed at such persons either.
>
>
>
>
> From: Peter
> Johnson <peterjohnson.oz@xxxxxxxxx>
> To:
> austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Sat, 21
> November, 2009 2:21:17 PM
> Subject: atw:
> Re: The gratuitously nasty list
>
> Good idea Christine.
>
> Peter Johnson
>
> Oceania University of Medicine
> National Health Complex
> Motootua
> P.O. Box 232
> Apia, Samoa
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:33,
> Christine Kent <cmkentau@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> Brian
>
> I think I am going to compile a list from now on of those
> who are
> gratuitously nasty, and simply point that fact out whenever
> you do it. We
> tend to only notice when it is done to ourselves, and let
> it slip when it is
> done to others, but the tone of this list has definitely
> dropped in recent
> times, and I find that fact distressing.
>
> What you have written below has no place on a professional
> list where
> professionals respect other professionals. This has
> to stop as it gets our
> profession and our nationality a bad reputation.
>
> We used to have a family atmosphere that did erupt
> occasionally into spats,
> but there was a kind of loyalty and forbearance amongst us.
> That has now
> gone, and the list is now intimidatory and bullying, with
> very little of
> value happening.
> Those who use it to get Word tips could just as well
> move
> to the Word PC list which is invariably polite and
> civilised, thus rendering
> this list entirely useless in its current form.
>
> So Brian, you are the first on my list - I apologise that I
> have singled you
> out for my first entry on the list, but someone has to be
> the first.
>
> All note that I have never met Brian and would not know him
> by sight, so
> this is not personal. Also note that all emails
> objecting to individuals
> who are gratuitously nasty will have "The gratuitously
> nasty list" in the
> header so you are free to delete them if you approve of
> this kind of
> behaviour and disapprove of my totally unauthorised attempt
> to stop it.
>
> I am losing my "family" and I don't like it.
>
> Christine
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Brian Clarke
> Sent: Saturday, 21 November 2009 10:07 AM
> To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: atw: Re: de argentum defence
>
> Poor diddums.
> You may note that I criticised your puff for its total lack
> of facts.
> You then moved to ad hominem attack. You stick to
> 'features' and I'll stick
> to facts.
> %&*% off, to paraphrase Janice's offering..
> Brian.
>
>
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