Gary, et al,
Not that there was anything damaging in your message, of course, but this reminds me of the old adage, "Never put anything in an email that you wouldn't want to hear read aloud in court."
As I've explained earlier, the reason I recently started using that copyright notice that apparently made Dan very nervous (not at all my intent) was because something like five years ago a guy on another list made a comment which was intended to be humorous (I personally didn't find it all that ROTFLOL funny, but others did: it was, I suppose, one of those YMMV things). Two years ago, someone dug through the archives of that list apparently looking for something incriminating, and, using a pseudonym, forwarded that comment to the employers of the guy who made it. They were apparently even less amused by it than I was, as they put him on probation for the past couple of years, and, although they continued to renew his contract every year, they never told him how he could get the probation lifted, and a couple of months ago called him in and told him he could either accept early retirement (after 35 years of service, about 2 years before he was scheduled to retire) with a reduced pension and benefits or be fired with no pension or benefits. As I said then, people here have made comments about others which were at least as offensive as, if not worse than, the comment he made, and I myself have certainly made my share of so-called humorous remarks which were no worse than his comment, so it just goes to show you that posting to lists is like eating a whole jar of jalapeno peppers: it can come back to burn your butt tomorrow . . .
-- Ronn! :)
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