[LMB] Conforming OT: Humour and list-history

Mark Allums mark at allums.com
Wed Apr 2 19:29:07 BST 2008


D Echelbarger wrote:
> Mark Allums wrote:
>> I am unable to distinguish one from the other.
> 
> So I gathered from your comment. So I clarified the comment you commented on.
> 
>> I wasn't being a list Nazi by requesting no top posting---that's all it 
>> was, a request.  No need to mock me.
> 
> I wasn't mocking you. I stopped following the top/bottom posting debate some time ago. (And I prefer 
> bottom-posting myself, as this and all prior posts by me amply demonstate.)  But I saw a post from 
> Pouncer (who hadn't posted in ages) so I read it, then read the comments on it.  Seeing that you'd 
> clearly not "got" Pouncer's (obvious to those who already knew his sense of humor) joke, I clarified 
> it for you.
> 
> Or at any rate, that was what I intended to do. Both times.  If I unintentionally came off as snide 
> or condescending, please accept my apologies.
> 
> Diane E
> 

I should apologize to you, Diane.  I was not directing this at you.  I 
didn't think you were mocking me.

Sorry for the confusion.  Sorry for the lack of clarity.  Sorry for 
appearing to lash out at the wrong person.

--Mark A.



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