I find my level of tolerance towards others is in proportion to the amount of dust and noise emanating from the bloody quarry next door. Last week I even shouted at my little dog when she asked to go downstairs to pee; she can come up alone, but has to be carried down.
The more trivial the annoyance the more I seem to react these days. I accused you, GW, of being anti-British for a remark about newspapers -- last week I think. I've been told that as one ages one either becomes more tolerant, or less tolerant of disturbances to one's mental equilibrium. Mine seems to go up and down like a Yo-Yo. I think most of you will understand this weakness. All these posts have come about as a results of someone thoughtlessly posting eBay listings. We have discussed this matter Ad Nauseam (for years) and the majority of the members think it's bad manners. Why don't we just leave it at that? I've been trying for a long time to get one particular Pentax item. I'll keep trying but don't promise not to be peeved if someone spoils my chances by posting the eBay link. By the way my website has had 6000+ hits since the middle of July when I put up 'The Cement Company from HELL' pages. There was a surge when the Finnish pages appeared and another when the German version was posted (thanks to A H Fricke and our own Heiko). I'd like to thank all of those who emailed the links and if you haven't done this and have the time to do so -- I'd be very grateful. Don _______________ Dr E D F Williams http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams Author's Web Site and Photo Gallery Updated: July 31, 2003 ----- Original Message ----- From: "graywolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 8:05 PM Subject: Re: Rules or guidelines > Well, put Bob, and Cotty. > > What it comes down to is we are all friends here. If you have a friend > who doesn't want to hear about some controversial topic, what do you do? > I usually don't mention it around him. It is simply called being polite. > At the same time, I think many of us (me near the top of the list) could > work a little at being more polite about how we ask someone to be polite > to us. And on the other hand we could all be a little less sensitive to > perceived criticism. But we all have to realize that everyone on the > list is human and therefore not perfect. > > PEACE. > > > > Bob Walkden wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Sunday, September 14, 2003, 4:24:30 PM, you wrote: > > > > > >>If this was expanded a little to mention the general consensus "ban" on > >>posting ebay auctions (and the reason behind it, not wanting to compete with others > >>on PDML) and also the discouragement of political discussion that can lead to > >>flame wars -- I think it would be nice to post it somewhere for newbies. > >>Would have helped me. > > > > > > well, 'ban' is a provocative word to a wet liberal like me <g>. Cotty > > suggested the word 'guidelines', which is much better, I think. > > > > Somebody would need to amend and host the amended version of the guidelines. > > This is a listmeister kind of thing, I think. > > > > If Listmeister Doug, and Pugmeister Adelheid were happy to include a link to > > it on their respective sites it would be easy enough for people to see when they > > joined the PDML, or looked at the PUG, and easy to point to from > > email. > > > > Similarly, it might be worthwhile for Doug to configure the system so > > that it adds a link to the guidelines to every message. > > > > However, this may all be a case of using bulldozer to move a pebble. In > > most cases, as we've seen, it just takes a word to the wise. It's been a > > while since anybody really behaved badly, and the kind of people who have > > caused a lot of trouble in the past are not likely to be persuaded by > > mere guidelines. Hang'em and flog'em, I say. > > > > -- > > --graywolf > http://graywolfphoto.com > > >
