RE: [cobalt-users] have fun

[<rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Blessed Be, everyone.
>
> Everyone?

Everyone, Dan. She may or may not think you're an ass (Lord knows you've
certainly earned that title being the Grinch of the list recently), but
having little tolerance for your pettiness has no relation to wishing
you ill. The lady was expressing benevolence and goodwill, of which you
are certainly as deserving as the rest of us.

Me, I'd love to stick a cattle prod up your motherboard, since a great
deal of the nastiness, pettiness, bitching, whining, moaning, harassment
and other assorted bullshit recently can trace its slimy little roots
back to your attempts to bully everybody into conforming to *your* idea
of what is or is not acceptable on this list...

...and because it is all of that bullshit (including but not limited to
yours) that has just driven away someone who, apart from being one of
the few ladies in our midst, is also one of the most useful, helpful,
good-natured contributors to this community. Which eventually is going
to be just you and the people who signed up yesterday.

Maybe one of us *should* start another list, like the Qube-Users list
that Jeff hosts, and offer it for free to the people and Cobalt. Same as
always, with free speech for all, but reserving the right to kick people
out if they richly deserve it. I think you're knowledgeable and would be
a welcome member... but you are just too much of a pain in the ass this
year. Or maybe we can suggest to Cobalt that under some conditions,
people ought to banned from the list. Something; I'll think more clearly
when I'm less ticked off.

Everyone else who got a copy of this mail got it so that we can actually
consider the idea; I didn't want to bother writing two emails and I do
want it crystal clear what I think and where my sympathies lie. I'm
highly sorry to see Carrie go... I want next time to be different.

--
Rodolfo J. Paiz
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