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- From: keegan@pan.crd.ge.com (James G Keegan Jr)
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- Subject: Re: Apologies to Garvin, Keegan, clueless newbies, and Regard
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.173939.25076@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 17:39:39 GMT
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- for almost two months, PHoney has been skirting posting
- an apology to adrienne for falsly accusing her of forgery.
- let's see what he does here ......
-
- nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- |>Here I go again, trying to post this for the third time. This time, I
- |>am taking the precaution of e-mailing copies to Adrienne and to Will
- |>Steeves, who has kindly offered to post things for me if my netserver
- |>misbehaves again.
-
- not a bad start...
-
- |>This is to Susan Garvin for misattributing some things to her in a post.
-
- that's susan, deserved, but not adrienne....
-
- [...]
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-
- |>I even speculated that the "missing" attribution line had been deleted
- |>by Adrienne, and for this I apologize to her, and also to Keegan and anyone
- |>else who was confused by my claim that the line was missing.
-
- here's one to me and another to adrienne, but not for his
- false accusation of her "forgery."
-
- [...]
-
- |>But now, on to something which has been confusing people for more than
- |>two months now.
- |>
- |>To Adrienne:
- |>
- |>You and I have in the past had a reasonably civilized e-mail
- |>conversation, but when we get to talking on the net, we both get carried
- |>away by the presence of an audience into doing a lot of flamboyant things
- |>we wouldn't do without them. For two months now, we've let a
- |>tangled web develop from a rather simple mistake that could have been
- |>corrected very simply in a one-on-one conversation.
- |>
- |>I propose we start to unravel this tangled net from the beginning. Since
- |>I made the initial mistake, the dubious privilege of first apology falls
- |>to me.
- |>
- [....]
-
- |>Give up? In chronological order, the first error was to somehow neglect to
- |>delete the > in front of the Suzanne Rini reference, making it look like it
- |>had been made by Adrienne, even though the subsequent lines, clearly from
- |>the Rini book, have no > in front of them. Apparently I had deleted a
- |>whole line of text by Adrienne except for the > and typed on without
- |>hitting <return>.
- |>
- |>This, however, was not the mistake about which Adrienne complained in her
- |>follow-up to the above post. The mistake was to leave in the following
- |>attribution line at the beginning even though there were no lines
- |>preceded by >>> anywhere in the post:
-
- |>Anyway, I hereby apologize to any clueless
- |>newbies who were confused by them, and to Adrienne for having to devote
- |>some time to setting the record straight for the benefit of these newbies.
-
- is this it? is this the long overdue apology? is this the
- apology for your false accusation?
-
- if it is, you did a pretty characterless job, PHoney.
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