[X Newbies] Mac Mail Question

[Steven Rogers]

On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 10:20 PM, Vincent Cayenne wrote:

>> , and cricket, instead of jumping with both feet (er, beg your 
>> pardon, all six feet, of course) on it could've said, "That's not 
>> quite correct
>
> But is was not "not quite correct", but completely and 
> in-no-way-related-to-the-query incorrect.

He (F. Neumann) is simply arguing in a very long winded way that the 
list should be more concerned about the feelings of the people on it, 
rather than about what is correct or incorrect. Its all about saying 
"not quite correct" instead of "incorrect", and other time wasters. The 
likely result is that Cricket gets bored of the politically-correct 
clap-trap (not post-modernist clap-trap) and decides to leave, taking 
away our one source of true information. But maybe this isn't a problem 
for Mr. Neumann - if we don't know the right answer, nobody will ever 
feel bad.

SR