[Dixielandjazz] Be nice to everyone

[Judy Eames]

I don't know why people got so hot under the collar about an "off list" 
poster ... which they shouldn't have known about anyway!  I don't understand 
how people can be so unwelcoming to a new voice.

IMHO (actually strike the "H") there are far too many unthinking postings to 
the whole list of the "Yeah I quite agree Bud"  sort.   Who is "Bud and what 
were his words of wisdom?  A bit more off-listing would be brilliant!

There that's got me limbered up for a couple of hours teaching recalcitrant 
adolescent boys.

Jude


Judy Eames
Kaminsky Connection
Aston, Oxfordshire
UK
www.judyeames.co.uk
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Dustin" <postmaster at fountainsquareramblers.org>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 3:07 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] The view from under the bus


OK, DJML¹ers and Gentlepeople, I¹ve been thrown under the bus and I confess
and repent the obvious error of my ways. Hang that Scarlet Letter (³Mr. A²)
on me because I happen to believe that Mr. Sharp made a good point. Timid I
am not. Naïve I must be to think that a CLEARLY labeled off-list expression
of support to Mr. Sharp¹s worthy opinion about losing the forest for the
trees would remain private. I didn¹t request anonymity ³because that is just
the kind of guy [I am]², an unfortunate characterization which appears to
have struck some of you as either timid OR arrogant. (Haven¹t figured that
one out yet.)  In fact I requested no anonymity at all! I sent a private
message in which ³off-list² came first in the subject line, came home
tonight (whistling a marvelous new line on ³Hindustan²) to discover that I
am now up there with the Anti-Christ...or maybe even Coltrane.  Evidently
many of you prefer attacks on an unwitting victim of a breach of confidence
to debates of Mr. Sharp¹s original point.

And yes, notwithstanding 600 (?) members, step back and take a fresh look at
this forum.  Are there really more than a dozen persons posting to this
list?  I¹ve been suspicious that there are maybe 2 guys (obviously a banjo
player and a trombonist) in a boiler room somewhere in China who have a
bunch of stolen email addresses and a computer program that randomly
generates unending arguments about how many angels can dance on the head of
a pin.

Now, how can we all get remedial reading lessons to Brother Sharp?

David Dustin
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