[Gllug] If you have nothing nice to say

[Nix]

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Dean Wilson stated:
> Then say nothing. Very wise words.

Hear, hear!

> I have no idea who started whatever, who said what or who took whose
> crayons and I don't really care.

I have it on good authority that no crayons were involved, nor
chalkboards, and the thing about the anaesthetised sheep, wooden mallet
and iron filings is a complete fabrication.

> All the bitching and pointed little comments can stop now. We're here as a
> community, a resource to each other and potential new members. If you
> can't play nice then unsub.

`If you can't be nice, be quiet'. The point of posting is helpfulness,
not showing off (and I know it's a bit of a stretch for me of all people
to say that, but I do *try* to keep my native arrogance in check).

(I also try to say nothing if someone else has already said what I was
going to say, but this seems to be a vanishingly rare tactic.)


Now it's time for me to retreat into my shell and stop posting for a
week or so in the hope that my absence will calm things down a bit and
stop driving new members off. This isn't not normally a blood-pressure-
raising list, and I'd be glad to see it getting back to its normal self;
with nothing but the occasional wildly off-topic thread to disturb its
placid calm, er, no, sorry, I can't lie *that* blatantly without
laughing. ;}

-- 
`"Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph
 I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to two hundred
 kilometers away" or "Last body part finally located".' --- James Nicoll
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