Mark may I suggest that you post his email address and that each
of us send him an email asking him to rejoin the fold?
...Art
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Mark Bradakis wrote:
>
> Well, now that my wife and her group's various musical apparatus are on their
> way to Phoenix, I can get to my email. No doubt, I can imagine what a fair
> bit of it is about.
>
> The message I sent out yesterday was unacceptable behavior on my part.
> I could have provided the same information in a much more pleasant and
> helpful manner. My guess, though, is that if folks actually read the
> info, and followed the various guidelines, the time I spend cleaning up
> after them would be cut by roughly half. So poor Fred just happened to
> ask a question that I assumed came from his not reading the list info file.
>
> Maybe it did, maybe it didn't, that doesn't matter. I shold not have
> chastised the hapless fellow in the manner in which I did. Odd, though,
> that it was just the MG list. Long time list subscribers may remember that
> about once every two or three years I crack under the pressure and I'll whip
> off some scathing rant, but I usually send it to *everybody* on all the lists.
>
> I've already sent a personal note of apology to Fred, I hope that my boorish
> behavior does not taint his opinion of the entire list population. As a new
> subscriber, he was likely quite happy to find such a resource as this list,
> and then I come along and scare him away. Geez.
>
> Actually, I don't usually read any of the lists, I was just cleaning up stuff
> in the digest, one of the tasks I do to try and keep the size down for the
> benefit of Juno subscribers with a small mail size limit. And I saw Fred's
> question and flew off the handle. Actually, RealSoonNow I'll move the MG
> digest creation under majordomo control, which will automatically send out
> an issue when it gets too large, something I've been doing by hand so far.
> Folks on the MG digest and the vintage-race digest may have noticed that
> the two look a bit different.
>
> Anyway, enough of that, once again I apologise to the list members, Fred
> especially, for my rantings.
>
> mjb.
>
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