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From: David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
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Subject: Re: We have a new standard!
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2024 10:54:05 +0100
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On 31/12/2024 02:58, Tim Rentsch wrote:
> "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> On 12/30/2024 3:14 AM, Tim Rentsch wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>>> Personal opinion:  the comments from David Brown do more harm than
>>> good here.  At some level he is just a guilty of giving a preachy
>>> opinion as the person he is responding to.  It seems likely that
>>> his statements will exacerbate the offending behavior rather than
>>> diminish it.
>>
>> I had some arguments with David Brown.  Everything was rather
>> cordial.  No flame wars, or anything like that.

(I have been less than cordial with some people - sometimes to an extent 
that I later regretted.)

> 
> Please note that my comments were not about David Brown in general
> but only about the statements of his that were quoted in the posting
> I was responding to.  What I said was not meant as a general
> statement, only a specific one, and was not meant about David as a
> person but only about the (quoted) words that appeared in the
> posting.

And that's all fine by me.


"""
Well, sir, my friends praise me and in so doing make a fool of me, while 
my enemies tell me plainly that I am a fool. Therefore my enemies help 
me gain knowledge of myself, while my friends deceive me.
"""

Twelfth Night



(Not that I view Tim as "my enemy" in any sense!)