The MetaIssue Digest V6 #555

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_yeats.ucc.ie>
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:01:31 +0100 (BST)


Brian, I see my heartfelt words to you in email on Subject lines, editing of quotes, etc, went on deaf ears.

Dear everyone: I know there's an intergrained culture of email being Disposable Trash, but I'm still of the belief that if one is going to send a piece of email to 1500 people, or thereabouts, then a _reasonable_ degree of care in writing same seems a not an unreasonable expectation. (And I do mean everyone; I wouldn't say Brian was by any means the 'worst offender'.)

The good of the many eyeballs over the few fingers, as it were.

> Examples of straw men of me that are still burning unchecked:
>
> 1. Brian hates everything about HW
> 2. Brian hates everything about Issaries, Inc.
> 3. Brian hates anything after RQ2

You call these straw men, but if you had posted these as a "summary of your position", I personally wouldn't have batted an eyelid. It is, as I've told you before, the Impression you give, in just about all of your posts. I can't recall the last time you posted about which parts of HW you're Deeply Excited about, or what a fine job I, I are making of -- well, anything, really, or of some Much Loved RQ3 product.

> 5. Brian and his play group, and every play group he knows, are all munchkins
> (no way to disprove that one unless you play in one of our games, I guess)

If even. ;-)

Cheers,
Alex.


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