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From: "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: We have a new standard!
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2024 13:40:36 -0800
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On 12/31/2024 1:54 AM, David Brown wrote:
> 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.)

Afaict, it basically goes up to, shit happens? The fact that you 
regretted some of them means you are a good person at heart. I think, 
perhaps, that we all have been there wrt regretting something on the 
Wild World of Usenet. ;^)

Happy New Year, David!

:^)


>> 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!)

Indeed.