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Re: (meteorobs) Re: Statistics & Stationary Meteors
On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Steve Harrison wrote:
> At 01:51 PM 10/12/98 -0700, you [Gregory david Stempel] wrote:
>
> >You are talking english semantics on the meteorobs list! I was just
> >asked a few days ago to move my conversation off the list. I would
> >appreciate a since of feeling that if it is wrong for me, it wrong for
> >everyone.
> It was, indeed, wrong for them to continue here as they did. Perhaps it was
> as wrong of the rest of us not to shush them down. But everytime one of
> them replied, the reply would "sound" as if it were the last word...only
> for another one to come along shortly...
> Must be too many clouds out there; otherwise, all of us would be napping
> for the evening's festivities. Malcolm and George, knock it off! Go private
> if you two still want to keep going, please!
The discussion was already closed until Gregory chipped in! George
had said that he understood.
As George misunderstood my point, then presumably other readers did
too. It was not semantics, but clarification of a matter on
*meteor-observing*, thus I stand by my decision to post. Until now it
was only two messages from me, hardly excessive.
If it had been just a personal slanging match, as we've recently had
the misfortune to witness on meteorobs, I agree that such matters are
better taken offline. Here there was no argument or animosity, just
misunderstanding.
This discussion is closed!
Malcolm
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