RE: Public Slamming

[Dean Cunningham <DeanC@domain.elided>]

Hi Glenn,

I feel I have to reply to your posting as you cc'd it to me.

<soapbox on>
John's email was in reply to mine. I perceived his reply to be helpful,
It told me that they advertise in the SOC magazine and clarifies a
previous thread.
Now if John has typed "another magazine!!!%^%$%$!" then I would of taken
his statement in a totally different way.
Please remember that email is a medium where you cannot see the eyes ,
stance and expression of the person you are mailing.
People can put words down in an email that can be misinterpreted. You
saw an attack on Mike, I saw a clarification.
In the past 6 weeks I have yet to see anything in John's submissions
that attack Mike. There have been 3 submissions using johns email
address where Mike Allen has attacked Mike (yes I even thought they were
an attack :-)  ).
I would prefer that you don't put   "In My Humble Opinion," when it , in
my opinion, it is obviously just your opinion and definitely not humble.
You obviously interpret 

>Hi Ian
>I read your write-up also in another magazine.

as just a sentence and

> Cardinal Triumph advertise regularly in the Stag Owners Club magazine
> (recently referred to by Mike Wattam as "another magazine" in his mail
> to Ian Soady)  so all SOC members know about them.

as a personal attack on John. 
I consider them as harmless as each other.

You see the computer geek world cottoned on to this mis-interpretation
early on in Internet land and that is why :-) :-(  <grins> <flamesuit>
and other such visual adjectives (or is that verbs... I dunno) have
infiltrated email land.
</soapbox>

I personally would appreciate that in future if you have any issues with
John's or anyone's postings that you address it with them personally and
leave the list out of it as well as those referred to in the original
mailing.

Please note this is my own personal opinion and definitely not my
employers




-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn A. Merrell [mailto:gmerrel@domain.elided]
Sent: Friday, April 16, 1999 6:08 AM
To: john.h.clayton@domain.elided
Cc: Dean Cunningham; 'Stag List'
Subject: Public Slamming


Dear Mr. Clayton:

    A simple question if I may ask:

    Mr. Clayton, would you please explain, giving precise detail, why
you have
publicly slammed Mike Wattam ....AGAIN!!???  Seems to be that this is 4
or 5
times this quarter?  I for one do not see why Mike Wattam was even
mentioned
at all in your latest response, other than specifically to do a public
slam!
    You might want to read the "Data Privacy Treaty" adopted by the EU,
slander on electronic media is a triable offense, gets the injured party
big
money damages resulting from it.  Want to bet it is part of UK law too?
If
you really have an ax to grind, call the TV media, go down to Speakers
Square,
get on the soap box, and have at it!

In My Humble Opinion,
[snip]



John Clayton wrote:

> Dean Cunningham wrote:-
[snip]
> > This company never seems to crop up in conversation on the mailing list
> > . Is this because no one knows about it or is it because people have had
> > a bad experience with them??
> >
>
> Cardinal Triumph advertise regularly in the Stag Owners Club magazine
> (recently referred to by Mike Wattam as "another magazine" in his mail
> to Ian Soady)  so all SOC members know about them.





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