Dear Carpenter listmates, one and all,
I for one am sick and tired of this stupid petty arguing and personal bickering on-list,
and wish for this list and all of its individual members to make and try to keep the
following New Year's resolution, as I hereby pledge to do:
From this moment onward, I will do my very best to avoid saying on any
list, and especially on the Carpenter list, anything that can be taken in any way to be a
personal attack against any other member of the list. If I do lose control and say some
such thing, as soon as my insult is pointed out to me off-list, I will reply to the
injured person, on the list for all to read, with a sincere apology. I will also write
privately to anyone on the list who I feel is saying insulting things and let them know
that I am offended, and ask politely for them to stop doing this.
We do share a lot of good information on this list, and it should be comfortable for
everyone--not just everyone I agree with--to share this information. The last several
times this pot boiled over, we lost a bunch of subscribers, one of them perhaps holding
the very piece of information I am searching for. Why must we continue to rehash our
dislikes of each other on the open list? Why can't this all be dealt with in our own
heart and mind, or failing that, in private communication not on the list?
In any event, this is my personal pledge to myself and to my listmates. Please let me
know at carpgl(a)ismi.net if I fail to keep this pledge.
George
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George R. Carpenter
Pinckney, Michigan
carpgl(a)ismi.net