[HPforGrownups] ADMIN: Rudeness and Insults

[Barry Arrowsmith]

No: HPFGUIDX 101200

OK.  Message received. (I assume I'm among the offenders  edging over 
the line.)

Yellow flag probably justified (beats breast, cries Mea culpa - *very* 
quietly).
Very sad in some ways; I *do* love what you might call a 'robust' 
debate, but I realise some are a bit more sensitive about that sort of 
thing. Always a possibility that things could get out of  hand, too.

Hopefully the admonition will be taken seriously by all interested 
parties.
If not, I'll find it very hard to bite my cheek.

There used to be a sign on a cage in the Paris Zoo:
"This animal is  Dangerous. When provoked it attacks."

Ah, well;  keep my fingers crossed.  It's much harder to pound the 
keyboard with an instinctive response that way.

Kneasy


On 14 Jun 2004, at 15:32, Kelley wrote:

> Hello, everyone.
>
>  From the HBF:
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>
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