Fair comment. One of my character defects is a tendency to self-righteousness. This mail arrived at a stressed moment which added pomposity ot the above. Self-righteosness + pomposity = rude and unnecessary email, for which I apologise to yourself, the original sender, and the list. Nick _____ From: Taylor, George [mailto:gtaylor@xxxxxxxx] Sent: 14 September 2004 16:19 To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: test The list was "very" slow when this message was sent, perhaps a server was down, not ignorance, not annoyance, just seeing whats going on. I don't think it even took a 1/2 a second to hit that delete key.........until the arrogance showed up........ _____ From: Nick Smith [mailto:nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 9:08 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: test I object to this more than the out-of-office, which is due to ignorance. This is deliberate annoyance. _____ From: Christine Easton [mailto:christine.easton@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: 13 September 2004 16:13 To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [THIN] test test