On 3 Jun 99, at 17:02, HAMISH MACEWAN wrote:

> "Dan Langille"<dan.langille@dvl-software.com> wrote:
>
> >I hope it will answer your question sufficiently if I say that
> >it was the reaction to a service outage announcement which
> >was the final straw.
>
> OK, well, I don't condone in anyway the expletives or vehemence of the
> post, but similarly I am a little disappointed that this should result in
> people resigning the list, in as much as I expect they get a proportion of
> phone callers who are similarly badly behaved and I doubt that they
> relinquish their phones over it. It is a sad thing that one persons
> outburst, however justifiable, or not, should result in the input from the
> rest of us now being studiously ignored.

As I said, it was the final straw. In hindsight, I feel I did set standards
early enough.

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