Wendy wrote:
There's a lot of people who have delighted *me* long enough, but I'm not going to suggest that *they* should be excluded from the list or ignored....
No, you seem, instead, to be hoping that if you're nasty enough to them they'll either be overwhelmed by your force of personality and miraculously start agreeing with you, or be cowed enough to just shut up and go away.
(I tried to bite my tongue. I did. I hate flamewars, and I'm going to hate myself for hitting "send," but, dammit... I happen to like and respect the people you're aiming your vitriol at, and I don't *want* them to be cowed into shutting up and going away!)
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--- Betty Ragan bragan@aoc.nrao.edu wrote:
Wendy wrote:
There's a lot of people who have delighted *me*
long enough, but I'm
not going to suggest that *they* should be
excluded from the list or
ignored....
No, you seem, instead, to be hoping that if you're nasty enough to them they'll either be overwhelmed by your force of personality and miraculously start agreeing with you, or be cowed enough to just shut up and go away.
(I tried to bite my tongue. I did. I hate flamewars, and I'm going to hate myself for hitting "send," but, dammit... I happen to like and respect the people you're aiming your vitriol at, and I don't *want* them to be cowed into shutting up and going away!)
I'm not naive enough to think I can cow the forceful personalities on this list with the force of my opinion alone. I did not attack anyone personally, I attacked a *concept,* the whole going-gooey-over-Avon-and-then-beating-him-up theme, and I'm still accused of getting personal. And I'd like to point out that I'm not the one who is trying to turn it into a flamewar. The Deliverence fight wasn't a flamewar. Neil's not flaming. Sally's not flaming....
Wendy
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