Re: test

[Ed Kasky <ed @ wrenkasky . com>]

I think if you knew anything at all about half the work Dan does for this 
list, you would have understood his impatience with your original 
post.   This is a technical list and as such tests are viewed as rude and 
intrusive.

If your skin is that thin, do yourself a favor and read up on a list before 
you post...

This has not been a test...

At 11:56 AM Sunday, 2/16/2003, Ann & Mike wrote -=>
>Dearest Dan
>
>Thank you very much Dan. I really like the welcome mat that you put out to
>new members that may not be as politically correct and knowledgeable about
>these things as you seem to be. Are you always like this or were you just
>not able to get out of your side of the bed this morning? Talk about Rude. I
>moderate a number of listserves and yours is the type of message that I
>would not tolerate on them. By doing what you did took up far more band
>width than my test message. This is the end of this discussion as any
>message received from you in the future will be going directly to the trash
>bin. Thanks again Dan
>
>
>
> >
> > You know?  This kind of test is about as rude as walking
> > into the announcers booth at a football or soccer game,
> > grabbing the microphone and saying "I'm new here, I only
> > wanted to make sure this microphone is working.  Please
> > forgive me for the announcement", when it is obvious to
> > those that participate regularly that everything works
> > fine.  Your test went to over a thousand people.  Which
> > one, or all, do you want to be forgiven by?
> >
> > BTW.  I only replied to the list.  If you get this, the
> > list is STILL working.
> >
> > Dan Liston
> >
> > Ann & Mike wrote:
> > > New member, test only, please forgive the band width.