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To: Ron McKinnon who wrote (15868)	8/16/1998 1:54:00 PM
From: Iceberg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 53068

>if you are alienated by that so be it off topic Ron, Posting "off topic" messages is one thing. I have no problem with that. On the other hand, exchanging cryptic personal messages in a public forum is another thing entirely. It's simply not polite. It makes people not in the loop feel left out, alienated, resentful, bewildered and confused. And I think it also breeds [unintentionally, I'm sure] so-called "fly infestations". As an example, my wife taught a 1-day course two weeks ago to a group of 10 students. One of the 10 students happened to know a mutual friend. So my wife and the student talked about that as a matter of casual conversation during the informal course she taught. My wife thought nothing of it. Well, it turned out that my wife got a rash of blistering end-of-course written critiques from the students...something she's hadn't experienced in previous courses. Some critiques directly addressed her personal conversation in front of the group, while others indirectly made nasty comments on peripheral issues. Upon discussing the damage assessment, I suggested to my wife - what do you expect to happen if you carry on a private conversation in a public forum? She agreed it was a major blunder on her part. My point is that this is a public forum, and I respond to posts based upon the content of any particular post, not based upon who might know who, or who might be friends with who [I don't have that information], or based upon any personal level whatsoever. I use private e-mail for personal messages not pertaining to the group at large. I take it from your post that you don't particularly care whether me, or others, feel alienated. If that's the case, I think it's a sad state of affairs, and an unflattering commentary for the Z-thread. Ice