From: Peter Marshall (petermarshall@cix.co.uk)
Date: 06/23/01-03:22:54 AM Z
Deb/Callie
Why not just use a signature that says who you are? Not at all difficult
even with a hotmail account.
I'd like to add my congratulations to Dick. I don't have a great deal of
time for the RPS for various reasons, but they do occasionally get things
right.
Peter Marshall
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email: photography.guide@about.com
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and elsewhere......
> What do you have in mind, Nick? Should I establish a Hotmail account
> under my "real" name? Should I use a "local" ISP's e-mail service and
> then mess around for hours in hotel rooms and cyber cafes trying to
> access my mail? You speak as if YOUR credibility was somehow more
> "real" because your were fortunate enough to get the "nick@mcn.org"
> address. Well I tried to get the "deb@hotmail.com" and it was already
> taken, so I opted for this one. Does that make me less real?
>
>
> >From: Nick Makris <nick@mcn.org>
> >Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> >To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> >Subject: Re: Mean Spirited Dick
> >Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 13:07:14 -0700
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Richard Sullivan FRPS" <richsul@earthlink.net>
> >To: <alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
> >Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 12:48 PM
> >Subject: Mean Spirited Dick
> >
> > > One of the things I do not allow on my discussion group is echo
> > > trolls.
> >Now
> > > you might ask "What is an echo troll?" Here's how it works. Trolls
> > > are
> > > people who come into a list anonymously just to be provocative. For
> > > instance an atheist on a Christian List or vice versa. Just there
> > > to >stir
> > > up trouble.
> >...................
> > > By the way, who are you.
> >
> >
> >Dick does have a valid point here, I registered a similar question
> >regarding
> >this individual a few weeks ago when this same question was being
> >discussed.
> >I recall that one list member claimed the poor individual was being
> picked
> >on by me/others. There appears to be need for identification of list
> >participants - not only for the scenario in question but for assessing
> the
> >credibility of the info being posted.
> >
> >I for one am in favor of knowing about the person engaged in current
> >discussion, perhaps to the extent that if they don't identify
> themselves
> >they should not be allowed to post.
> >
> >Nick
> >
> >
> >
> > > Callie Type provokes:
> > >
> > > >Congratulations to Dick for this accomplishment. The entire crew
> > > at
> > > >Bostick and Sullivan has always been a joy to work with. Several
> > > years
> > > >ago, when I first joined this list, Dick's wit and advice were a
> >constant
> > > >plus. But then something happened. Perhaps he joined with the
> > > "wrong
> > > >crowd". In any event, he developed a mean streak and went too far
> > > out >on
> > > >a limb with some obviously personally biased shenanigans. At one
> > > time
> > > >forum moderators at his own web list were posting questionable
> > > >mean-spirited comments directed towards people prominent on THIS
> > > >list. Hopefully, those times are behind us. I miss the OLD Dick
> > > >Sillivan, and I hope he takes this proud occasion as an
> > > opportunity to
> >return.
> >
> >
>
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