Way to go George!
Happy New year
Richard L. Carpenter
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From: The Carpenters <carpgl(a)ismi.net>
To: <CARPENTER-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 5:29 PM
Subject: [CARPENTER] Stupid and petty arguing
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
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