Re: We have a new standard!

On 12/31/2024 1:54 AM, David Brown wrote:

On 31/12/2024 02:58, Tim Rentsch wrote:

"Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> writes:
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On 12/30/2024 3:14 AM, Tim Rentsch wrote:
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Personal opinion:  the comments from David Brown do more harm than
good here.  At some level he is just a guilty of giving a preachy
opinion as the person he is responding to.  It seems likely that
his statements will exacerbate the offending behavior rather than
diminish it.

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I had some arguments with David Brown.  Everything was rather
cordial.  No flame wars, or anything like that.

 (I have been less than cordial with some people - sometimes to an extent that I later regretted.)

Afaict, it basically goes up to, shit happens? The fact that you regretted some of them means you are a good person at heart. I think, perhaps, that we all have been there wrt regretting something on the Wild World of Usenet. ;^)
Happy New Year, David!
:^)

Please note that my comments were not about David Brown in general
but only about the statements of his that were quoted in the posting
I was responding to.  What I said was not meant as a general
statement, only a specific one, and was not meant about David as a
person but only about the (quoted) words that appeared in the
posting.

 And that's all fine by me.
  """
Well, sir, my friends praise me and in so doing make a fool of me, while my enemies tell me plainly that I am a fool. Therefore my enemies help me gain knowledge of myself, while my friends deceive me.
"""
 Twelfth Night
   (Not that I view Tim as "my enemy" in any sense!)

Indeed.