mmorse@nsf.gov (Michael H. Morse) writes:
> I think I would change your subject to "why are LM's so sensitive"?
> FTF communication between human beings is difficult enough. E-mail,
> lacking instantaneous response and non-verbal clues is much worse.
> I think David B. O'Donnell's message is quite reasonable, clear, and
> polite. What more do you want from the guy???
1. I would like his mail to go to the right place? Like the list
instead of my mailbox?
2. I would like his followup to somebody else, which also
mistakenly came into my mailbox, and which attributed
to me some things I NEVER said, to also go to the
right place? (No, I'm not forwarding it. If he didn't
save a copy, he's fucked.)
3. I would like a little more confidence in the forgery-sniffing
talents of someone who can't even manage to handle attributes,
send REPLIES to LIST MESSAGES to the LIST, or figure out from
standard attribute cues who did (or didn't) say something.
4. I would like to think that before running around screaming
"Forgery! Forgery!" the AOL people would have more evidence
than how (un)believable they found the performance of the
sysadmins when answering questions.
> This is demeaning in that you are implying he is *not* a system
> administrator, at least in the way you think of system administrator.
> Insulting people in e-mail is unlikely to elicit cooperation.
The only cooperation I need from him at this point
is for him to stop sending me email intended for someone else
and misattributing others' prose to me.
Of course, his competence at actually sending mail says little
about his ability to sniff out and finger forgeries. :)
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