Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 09:49:39 -0700
Reply-To: "William W. Viergever" <wwvierg@IBM.NET>
Sender: "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From: "William W. Viergever" <wwvierg@IBM.NET>
Subject: Re: Melissa's Birthday
In-Reply-To: <35F164C0.4CCC@bellatlantic.net>
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Jules and his allies:
I started all this by simply suggesting that the other folks who replied to your original post should have done so via a PRIVATE post.
This request is very reasonable *AND* is standard etiquette on list servers.
You and your friends obviously think differently.
What's amazing to me is the all the condemnation that followed; basically, their collective attitude has been more or less "screw you, we have a right to post stuff like this, and if you don't like it delete it!"
This attitude reminds me of two situations: 1) it reminds me of folks at (e.g.,) Toys R Us who when they stop to check out some toy, leave their cart right in the middle of the aisle instead of parking it off to the side, and 2) it reminds me of our President, who lies, and attacks the accusers, and continues to flaunt accepted norms of behavior.
I refrained from continuing to participate in this thread last week (re. Jon Seltzer's comments and responses), but alas, I come in today and find not one, but two more threads from you, and a burried one from Pat Flickner.
Your first one with the "Where is Andy Rooney" comment was the longest waste of bandwidth yet; again, addressed to the entire list.
Then we get the thank you note.
Enough is enough.
I suggest you all grow up and act like the pofessionals that typically frequent this list.
I repeat: this list server is not your's and others private playground. Your continued lack of common courtesy, in fact, your smugness in sending such a long meaningless post (re. Andy Rooney) and thereby keeping the thread alive, is very dismaying.
I have no choice now but to add you to my twit filter; which is unfortunate, because in the past, when dealing with SAS issues, I have enjoyed your contributions.
Again, please take this for how it was intended: simply be courteous and make posts like in this thread private.
Later
At 12:20 PM 9/5/98 -0400, Jules Bosch wrote:
>I wish to thank those who took the time and effort to drop my daughter a
>Birthday greeting--thank you very much! My daughter enjoyed all the
>messages immensely and also the links to some rather interesting
>"Greetings" sites. Naturally, I enjoyed the SQL code.
>
>Thanks again for complimenting a young lady's Birthday.
>
>Her Dad
>
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