From: Don Whiteside (dwhite_at_shadow.net)
Date: Tue Jun 20 1995 - 13:52:28 EDT
On Tue, 20 Jun 1995, Robert Dewar wrote:
> OK, sorry, it would never occur to me to take someone calling one of
> my posts idiotic as an insult -- but I realize other people have thinner
> skings, and will try to moderate language in future :-)
I think it's less an issue of thin skin than that I can't tell from a
piece of email what the tone is behind a message. <shrug> Perhaps I'm
overly cautious - "idiotic" seems like a loaded word to me. Or perhaps
living in a rude city like Miami keeps me overly tensed about such
things. :-)
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