>On Sun, 8 Oct 2000 LeoCasey at aol.com wrote:
>
> > I want to thank Chris for a positive and helpful intervention. Believe
> me, I
> > did not come to the LBO list to do battle with Yoshie and Heartfield over
> > Rwanda and Serbia. [Indeed I keep on trying to figure out how I got sucked
> > into this kind of exchange.]
>
>It's because you started out implying your opponent was an idiot and an
>evil influence. That tends to rile people. Write short emails that are
>polite and you'll generally get the same back.
nonsense. on both counts. leo wasn't rude initially. and politie emails will not necessarily elicit polite emails in response.
kelley