Personal attacks

Ryan Dunn · 22 Nov 2011, 15:47 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: ryan at liftingfaces.com (Ryan Dunn)
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:47:57 -0500
Subject: (urth) Personal attacks
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I have literally deleted over 100 emails entitled Babbiecorn... for this very reason, Mo.

There is a thin but important line between passionate discourse and slanderous rhetoric, which is getting quite blurry of late.

Thanks you for raising the concern.

...ryan

On Nov 22, 2011, at 10:09 AM, Mo Holkar <lists at ukg.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Guys, some of you are currently making this list a really annoying place to hang out -- to the extent that I'm just deleting threads unread.
> 
> It always seems to be observations about one another's distasteful modes of discourse that gets us to this point. I would really like that to be a banned topic, as it seems never to be helpful or informative, but invariably produces a trail of vitriol.
> 
> Could you please just lay off each other?
> 
> best wishes,
> 
> Mo
> 
> 
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