[Northkeep] Angus vs. Angus

[Rebecca Heydon]

Um...the Angus who wrote this is not Angus MacKnockard (the "agressive jerk"
we all know and love and who can, indeed, be nice about it)...it says on the
bottom of his original post Angus Gunn....

R

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc Carlson" <marc-carlson at utulsa.edu>
To: <northkeep at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Northkeep] Re: Ok, that's enough of that (thanks,Angus- I sure
won't ask again)


> At 12:58 PM 7/9/01 -0700, Angus wrote:
> >>I do not know how my post offended anyone and I do not
> >>care. I will say one thing though. My post simple and
> >>direct and I am not going to BS to make everyone
> >>happy. As far as I am concerned I was lied to. I hate
> >>being lied to more than almost anything. If you find
> >>what I have to say offensive, remove me from this
> >>list. It will sure reduce the number of emails I read
> >>a day.
>
> Gee, Angus, perhaps you should ask Anawyn if she was referring to you
> as being the person who chastised her.  I'm not convinced that she was
(even
> though it was your name in the subject line).  Now if you are sure it was
> you who was doing it, then please let me know privately, and we can
discuss
> this further there.
>
> As for being lied to, I can understand not liking that -- I'm not too keen
on it
> myself.  If you feel that someone here lied to you, take it to -them-.
That's not
> asking you to BS in your messages.  All I'm asking for is that everyone at
least
> make an effort to act like an adult.  Unless I'm seriously mistaken, I've
seen
> you act like an adult around here, so I'm pretty sure you know what the
difference
> is between acting like an adult, and BS (for the record (although I'm
certain Angus
> already knows this) you can be an aggressive jerk and still be nice and
adult
> about it).
>
> I have so far only removed one person from this list since I got the
keys -- and
> they explicitly asked me to.  So, yes, I have the power and the authority
to do
> so -- but that's a threat that, if used to bludgeon a list into
'behaving', becomes
> really meaningless.  After all, who cares if you are unsubscribed from a
list
> you aren't participating in.  Therefore, if you want me to remove you, you
will
> need to be more explicit about it.
>
> I'm sorry that I can't suggest any good ways to shorten the number of
emails
> you get -- clearly considering the several hundred I get (on a quiet day),
I have
> my own problems in that area.
>
> Marc/Diarmaid
>
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