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Re: Non-linear full-2d writing (again)

From:Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...>
Date:Thursday, February 2, 2006, 9:42
staving R A Brown:
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Mark J. Reed wrote: >>Could y'all please take the "OFFLIST" out of the subject when you >>decide to bring a conversation back ON-list? :) > >AMEN!! > >>On 1/31/06, Tom Chappell <tomhchappell@...> wrote: >> >>>--- Sai Emrys <sai@...> wrote: > >Now we seem to have the bizarre situation where Sai & Jefferson are >corresponding offlist & indirectly via Tom who then puts it all onlist! > >It reminds me of those situations you sometimes see in comedy, where lord >& Lady Muck are not talking to one another, but sit at each end of a long >table and communicate via the butler. The may be funny to watch - but for >goodness sake, this is getting surreal! > >Also the inordinate amount of quoting and non-cutting is making the >exchanges difficult for me to follow, and I suspect for some others as well. > >Cannot we either have a proper exchange onlist, where we exchange views >*directly* with one another, or keep it is offlist. I don't know about >others - except obviously Mark - but when I see "OFFLIST" in the subject >line, I expect a private email.
I've been thinking that it would be a good idea for all concerned to give the whole subject of 2d scripts a rest for the time being. On what's normally a very friendly list, its disconcerting to see tempers being raised so much over a simple matter of geometry. Pete