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Fw: Insult
----- Original Message -----
From: Rod Fleming <rod@silversalt.co.uk>
To: Randall Webb <randall.webb@lineone.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 3:52 AM
Subject: Insult
> Hello
>
> I find your suggestion that Scots are a bunch of drunken illiterates
highly
> offensive and insulting. Had you made it in a private post I would have
> laughed it off, but in fact you chose, in a manner that is unfortunately
all
> too typical of your countrymen, to insult an entire nation in public.
>
> Judy's nastiness was in a way more acceptible (and utterly predictable) ,
as
> it is aimed directly at me, and not the other 5.6 million.
>
> A similarly public apology would go some way to redress this; meantime I
> have made protest to Gordon Holtslander.
>
> It would be a fine thing if you learned to accept criticism in a
> good-humoured manner. Your book, "Spirits of Salts", is a good primer,
> but it does contain a large number of inaccuracies and omissions which are
> almost bound to cause frustration.
>
> Farber's description of the kallitype is the best I have read outside
> Stevens, and Farber's book is broad-based, covering many different
> processes. Your refusal to accept that it has any merit, and your
suggestion
> that in-depth
> description is "a waste of time", reflect poorly on you.
>
>
> Rod>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I nearly forgot. Here's another one that crept out of the woodwork some time
ago off list of course.
Randall Webb