Chris Burford's Comments

kelley kwalker2 at gte.net
Mon Oct 9 07:33:05 PDT 2000


At 06:32 AM 10/9/00 -0400, Michael Pollak wrote:


>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



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