RE: [cobalt-users] have fun

["Dan Kriwitsky" <webhosting@xxxxxxxxx>]

> > > 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.

It was meant to be humorous, but you snipped the previous part I quoted.

>
> 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...

Really? And you're doing what? Maybe you should go back in history a bit and
read the posts that started this all.
http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-users/2001-March/038108.html and
http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-users/2001-March/038115.html
It's amazing how many people appear to have only read my reply and not the
original posts.
(What's really kind of funny is that the person who flamed me, both on and
off list, for my supposedly unhelpful reply wasn't even the person who
posted the original question I replied to.)

>
> ...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.

It really doesn't concern me what the ratio of men to women on this list is,
and as for driving her away, I'm not quite sure what her concern was with
the original thread that started this. But, she's a big girl and if she
chose to jump in on a thread and then can't "take the heat" of replies, then
she shouldn't post in the first place. If her concern was simply not wanting
to read that thread, then kill files work great for that. Blaming me for
running her off is a bit of a reach.

>
> 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.

Yes, do that and then read what you wrote above that someone more sensitive
than I may interpret as a thinly disguised threat of violence.
Why you think Cobalt would want to send their customers to someone who
competes with them for selling support to run a mailing list for them is
quite beyond me.
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Dan Kriwitsky