You are absolutely right on the Vision Age point, David, and I was the
first one to 'reprimand' William for that behaviour - even pointing to
your generous behaviour in this field for comparison.
But in a few technical discussions William was merely stating correct
physics facts - and these should not be doubted in the way it happened
by people who are obviously less knowledgeable.
If I had been in William's shoes I would not have felt badly insulted
and consequently not seen any reason to quit the list, but I do
respect the point of view of someone who does feel that way.
William is obviously touchy (too touchy, I should say) but there are a
few among us list members who didn't do him right.
I did miss the musical discussion, because I have skipped the whole
thread as too much OT. To quote from the series you mention and which
I admire as one of the best ever made: 'Me know nothing'...
Anyway, let's get back to what the list was intended for IMHO:
exchanging views - preferably ON topic - in a friendly way,
sharing (!) knowledge without being pedantic,
and accepting that others might know better,
with room for the occasional funny story.
Frank van Lindert.
On Thu, 27 May 1999 17:10:29 +0100, "David Brown"
<keswick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Frank - with all respect I believe that you may have missed part of the
>story here ....
>
>I have tried very hard not to respond to William's comments over the last
>few weeks but enough is enough!
>
>I tend to delete messages regularly so I may be mistaken here but I can
>remember three "outbursts" over the past month or so. The first was a public
>denouncement of a list member who had asked William to photocopy a few pages
>of
>Vision Age for him. The main reason was the time taken to photocopy and post
>the pages (a little ironic to me as I had just spent many hours and put up
>$1,000 of my own money up front to obtain copies for several list members,
>one of whom was William). The issue of copyright was also mentioned but why
>did this have to be done so publicly on list?
>
>The second occasion was over a technical issue; I cannot remember the
>details but I do know that several list members who seem much more
>knowledgeable than myself did disagree with William.
>
>The third occasion was I thought an unbelievable diatribe against someone
>who had made a flip comment (in response to a jovial thread about Paul Simon
>and Kodakchrome) saying that he preferred Mozart.
>
>To be honest with you I thought that these totally over the top responses
>were tongue in cheek; I am not sure how far John Cleese and Faulty Towers
>have spread around the world but those who have seen him in full spate will
>know what I mean.
>
>If William has left the list I am disappointed; but I felt much more sorry
>to whoever asked him privately to photocopy a few pages of Vision Age and
>found himself publicly harangued on the list.
>
>David
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