On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 19:16 -0300, Trevor Smith wrote: > On October 20, 2004 11:57 am, Thomas Cameron wrote: > > You self-appointed "list police" crack me up. Man, it must be a really > > sad life to lead if you have to make yourself feel better by flaming > > someone for trying to do something nice. > > Here's the long and the short of this situation: > > 1. you did something, allegedly trying to be nice > 2. it was something that (apparently unknown to you) bothered people because > they don't want commercial advertisements -- of any kind -- on this list > 3. when they pointed this out to you, some of the people here were less than > polite because they care more about being annoyed than about your original > intentions > 4. rather than being suitably educated that even well-intentioned unsolicited > "help" can be unwanted, you became defensive and rudely accused (at least > some) people of being jerks > > Final childishness score: > > you - 1 > the list - 1 And then you had to come along behind and pop off, too. I guess it should be: you - 1 the list - 1 Trevor - 1
