Re: OT: Subscribing to the Knowledge of the Gods

[Stephen A. Lawrence]

leaking pen wrote:

Pardon, but i was responding to Mr. Wesley, 

Ahem.

You often top-post and, in the message in contention, you did not 
include a greeting.

That combination is an almost sure-fire way to confuse people regarding 
exactly to whom you think you're responding, because your response is 
floating in the air, all alone, at the top of the message with no tag of 
any sort to indicate the recipient.

Since you didn't say "Dear Mr. Wesley" nor give any other indication 
that it was Wesley, not OrionWorks, to whom you were directing the 
words, and since the message to which you were responding was from 
OrionWorks, his conclusion that he was the antecedent of the "YOU" in 
your message does not seem especially unreasonable.

In the face of the onrushing night of Unreason the non-holy-rollers in 
the group should strive dilligently to avoid squabbles among themselves, 
and keep in mind that the goal should be to work together to retain a 
few candles with which to negotiate the darkness.