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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:51:08 LCL
- Reply-To: "Joseph D. McDowell" <ENWINE@AUGUSTANA.EDU>
- Sender: ROOTS-L Genealogy List <ROOTS-L@NDSUVM1.BITNET>
- From: "Joseph D. McDowell" <ENWINE@AUGUSTANA.EDU>
- Organization: Augustana College - Rock Island IL
- Subject: Re: Gaelic-L mail lists
- Comments: To: ROOTS-L@VM1.NoDak.EDU
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- Rick Kitchen has written:
- > But the Irish list was very cold and I got royally flamed
- > for asking an inappropriate question, since their list is "about the study of
- > the Irish Gaelic language."
- >
- > Maybe if I'd asked the question in Irish Gaelic, they would have been more
- > friendly? :-)
- >
- > Just a word of warning.
- >
- > Rick Kitchen
- > kitchenrn@ssd0.laafb.af.mil
- >
- I feel that I must respond to what I feel is a misleading and perhaps
- defamatory characterization of Gaelic-L. I belong to that list as
- well as to Roots-L and several others. All of us who spend time on
- the Net know that Lists exist for specific purposes, and that these
- purposes are usually clearly stated in material sent to list members
- at sign-up.
- When I saw Rick's original message to Gaelic-L, I was not at all
- offended, but didn't answer since I did not know the answer to his
- question. There were two responses. The first did, in fact remind
- list members of the language-learning purpose for the list in what I
- thought was entirely appropriate and inoffensive language, but did not
- `royally flame' the questioner. The second response was, in fact, a
- defense of Rick's question since it involved the derivation of names
- and not origins of families. This second may have been from Rick (I
- can't recall right now).
- In any case, I do not think a "warning" is necessary in this
- particular case. I further think it necessary to be cautious before
- sending a message which could be construed as derogatory to the whole
- list publically.
-
-
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