Being a jerk means never having to say your sorry. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net> To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 2:04 PM Subject: Re: KR>Fw: KR-2S plans are sold
> John Mau wrote: > > > > To bad, I would have gone $200. > > and then wrote: > > > Is this guy a jerk to everyone, or am I just the lucky one? > > I think Larry's point was two-fold: > > 1) Why was it important to send this tidbit of information to 425 KRnet > subscribers? > 2) If you'd have gone $200, why DIDN'T you, and why complain about it now > to the list? > > There are some folks who try to "police" KRnet traffic behind the scenes, > and I don't have a problem with that. In fact, I'd encourage it. > Otherwise, I come off as the bad guy making all the "collars", and everybody > would think (maybe KNOW) I'm a jerk. I post my pet peaves to the list > occasionally, just to remind people what the "rules" are, and to shame > people into refraining from such posts in the future, but I think there's a > place for several people privately emailing offenders and letting them know > what's accepted and what's not. That keeps it off the list, and keeps > people from getting their feelings hurt publicly (which tends to magnify the > effect). > > The bottom line is that I've just about given up trying to make people act > like I think they ought to act, so others are trying to take up my slack. > If you need some pointers on what's accepted and what's not, check out > KRNetiquette at http://www.krnet.org/info.html . But the question you'll > see repeated is "do 425 people need to spend their time reading my post"? > In this case, I'd say no... > > Mark Langford, KRnet adminstrator > N56ML at hiwaay.net > see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford > > > _______________________________________ > to UNSUBSCRIBE from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
