Re: Conventions


"Dan Kimmel" <daniel.kimmel@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Bernard Peek" <bap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> In message <00A4B92C.4CFC40C3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Alan Winston -
>> SSRL Central Computing <winston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>>
>>
>> >I'm better off, really, since this shouldn't tempt me to waste any more
> time
>> >trying to reason with Dan, who appears to be immune to it. While I have
> the
>> >floor, though, I'll just point out Dan's double standard - he either
> feels
>> >that he's not making it personal when he tells other people that they
>> >say
>> >nothing that's worth responding to, or 'jokingly' suggests that they've
> been
>> >brainwashed or that it's okay for him to make it personal - but if
> anybody
>> >else tells him he's behaving badly - without speculating on his motives
> or
>> >calling him a name or suggesting he's off his meds - that's personal and
>> >worthy of killfiling.
>>
>> As an addendum, it's as well to point out that in large part the posts
>> in response to Dan's arguments aren't necessarily for Dan. They just
>> serve as a convenient hook on which to hang a message to other people
>> who we assume are reading these messages too, although I suspect a lot
>> of people have now stopped.
>
> I'm just having a pleasant discussion with differing opinions being
> exchanged. If Alan is going to have a hissy fit when he or others get
> back
> what they dish out, he's better placed in my killfile.
>
> And I suspect you're right. I've skipped over a lot of posts as this
> discussion seems to have degenerated into mere repetition of points made
> many times before.
>

Where as I am finding this the most intersting thread I have ever come
across! We have managed to discuss everything from computers to books to
food safety to convention marketing and yet still cant seem to come to a
consensus on a definition.

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