Peter, > I think that this must be a cultural thing. I can see how somebody > would see the third person style as overly formal or stilted. An > interpretation like that does make sense to me. But I knew of no > reason why you might find that style made the message offensive. It > was never intended to denigrate.
This explains why it felt so difficult to make myself clear. I was feeling exactly the same, just the other way round. > I don't know you all that well, but we have talked for quite a while > on a few occasions. I got the sense that you are a decent person from > these conversations. I have no possible reason to denigrate or insult > you. In general I try to be respectful, and if I ever fail it's not > because I didn't care at all. Anybody that knows me well knows that I > am not a mean spirited person. I never though that. Maybe we should have quickly talked things out. Email tends to be a bad medium for communication, especially when it goes wrong. :) > If this is just an unfortunate misunderstanding, as I suspect it is, > then I would be happy to let it go, and treat it as something to > learn > from. Agreed, me too. I'd like to apologize for not answering your email the way I should have. Honestly it never occurred to me. Maybe that's because I'm used to other procedures, or because I never had to converse with the RMT, or maybe, quite simple, because I lacked the time to think it through, the original issue that kind of started this whole mess. Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) Meskes at (Debian|Postgresql) dot Org
