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Re: incivility on the list (was Re: [Digital BW] Re: Piezo vs. Imageprint 4)

2002-05-09 by dickbo

Spell it out lad will you... your comments are quite beyond my
understanding.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam A. McCandless" <samcc@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 4:05 PM
Subject: incivility on the list (was Re: [Digital BW] Re: Piezo vs.
Imageprint 4)


> "dickbo" <Dickbo@...> wrote the list in response to
> Robert Morrison's post:
>
> > >  Mike, more than anyone
> > > I know, has evaluated many of the options (and bought them all).  He
> > > certainly has the right to speak his mind about what he sees as the
ups >
> >and downs of each product.
> >
> >That statement might indeed be true, but the question is at what point
does
> >a studied comment become a grudge statement, [snip]
>
> but that was not the question for me. For me, the question was and is
> whether incivility will be tolerated on the list. And I hope not
> because it corrodes the spirit of community which lists need to
> thrive.
>
>
> >and I would suggest that when the criticism is more frequent than
> >the praise then one is reasonably allowed to suspect that something
> >more than an honest expression of opinion
> >is going on around here.
>
> No, one isn't: products don't necessarily deserve praise and
> criticism with equal frequency, and even if they did, honest people
> would sometimes fail to deliver them that way. Why even suspect
> dishonesty, much less air the suspicion on the list?
>
> Suspicions are one thing and published accusations are another. So
> are sly insinuations; I don't think Dickbo's belong on the list
> either.
>
> Sam McCandless                samcc@...
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