Re: Devient& Tom M.

>Thomas O. Magann Jr. wrote:
>>
>> I responded publically, as I've seen such things many times, whether I was
>> involved or not, and I've never understood why folks publically call for a
>> move to private mail, instead of following their own advice, and doing
such a
>> thing privately.
>>
>
>	These calls are usually made publically so that
>everyone on the lists knows that some one has already made
>the request and thus making sure that the people so requested
>don't get their mailboxes flooded with private requests.
>	Really, which would you rather see, Thomas?  One
>public call for a private discussion, or about 25 private ones -
>most of which would have shown up after the conversation ended
>or had already been moved to private?  Personally, I'd rather
>see the public - it makes for less e-mail to flush from the
>INBOX.
>
Well, as the public one showed up after the thing ended, and made it worse,
the private ones would have been prefered.

So would some of you actually doing what the moderator said, and dropping it.

But, as you decided to make a public example of this obviously privately
meant post, you've rather made the point for me.

Thank You For Your Time,

Thomas O Magann Jr
http://www.sfo.com/~tomjr/

<tomjr@???.com> or my back-up: <TMagann@???.com>