Mark,
I'd like to thank you for a helluva job well done. Since I've found
this
list, it's become a part of my life, as I'm sure it has for many others.
Of course, like life, we have joy and pain, anger and laughs. We
understand - everybody has a right to go postal once in a while, and since
you're our "E-mail postman" you have an extra reason!
BTW, what's your address? I'd like to make a humble donation to show my
appreciation. Thanks again for a job well done.
"Take time to smell the roadsters."
Michael S. Lishego
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> From: Mark Bradakis <mjb@cs.utah.edu>
> To: mgs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Apologies
> Date: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 12:54 PM
>
>
> Well, now that my wife and her group's various musical apparatus are on
their
> way to Phoenix, I can get to my email. No doubt, I can imagine what a
fair
> bit of it is about.
>
> The message I sent out yesterday was unacceptable behavior on my part.
> I could have provided the same information in a much more pleasant and
> helpful manner. My guess, though, is that if folks actually read the
> info, and followed the various guidelines, the time I spend cleaning up
> after them would be cut by roughly half. So poor Fred just happened to
> ask a question that I assumed came from his not reading the list info
file.
>
> Maybe it did, maybe it didn't, that doesn't matter. I shold not have
> chastised the hapless fellow in the manner in which I did. Odd, though,
> that it was just the MG list. Long time list subscribers may remember
that
> about once every two or three years I crack under the pressure and I'll
whip
> off some scathing rant, but I usually send it to *everybody* on all the
lists.
>
> I've already sent a personal note of apology to Fred, I hope that my
boorish
> behavior does not taint his opinion of the entire list population. As a
new
> subscriber, he was likely quite happy to find such a resource as this
list,
> and then I come along and scare him away. Geez.
>
> Actually, I don't usually read any of the lists, I was just cleaning up
stuff
> in the digest, one of the tasks I do to try and keep the size down for
the
> benefit of Juno subscribers with a small mail size limit. And I saw
Fred's
> question and flew off the handle. Actually, RealSoonNow I'll move the MG
> digest creation under majordomo control, which will automatically send
out
> an issue when it gets too large, something I've been doing by hand so
far.
> Folks on the MG digest and the vintage-race digest may have noticed that
> the two look a bit different.
>
> Anyway, enough of that, once again I apologise to the list members, Fred
> especially, for my rantings.
>
> mjb.
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