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From: *Hemidactylus* <ecphoric@allspamis.invalid>
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badgolferman <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote:
> *Hemidactylus* wrote:
> 
>> badgolferman <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Alan Browne wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I'll check in again ... June?  TBD.
>>>> 
>>>> Be well, happy and safe going into the New Year, all!
>>> 
>>> Announcing you are leaving a group is much like announcing you have
>>> killfiled someone.  It's a weak attempt to exercise some power over
>>> others.
>>> 
>> Pointing it out that way makes you much worse. I see Alan as
>> performing a cathartic mic drop. Who cares what you think of it you
>> silly little person.
> 
> 
> You're right!  It doesn't matter what I think of it.  For that matter I
> don't care that he left.  What matters is his display of superiority.
> 
> "Elvis has left the building."  "I have arrived at the party."  "Look
> at me now."
> 
> They're all the same.  Ego driven forms of pride.
> 
I think it something of a courtesy for him to announce to others that he is
leaving. People aren’t left wondering what happened as with nospam. It’s
dickish to frame it as you do.