Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 10:20:48 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>, WSFAlist at WSFA.org
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Okay, everyone please calm down
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 11:41 PM 9/28/05 -0400, Samuel Lubell wrote:
>Could everyone take a deep breath and count to five before posting
>something someone might find offensive.
>
>We all have weird senses of humor (I myself once was asked if I came
>with footnotes) and sometimes what we think is funny others might
>misinterpret and overreact.
>
>It seems that Mike Walsh was making a joke.
>
>Lee, no one was accusing you of anything but helping WSFA by getting
>a bunch of us free tickets, for which I for one thank you (I got to
>see Firefly a week before it opened, yay WSFA!)
>
>Keith, you've done an incredible job as secretary, which as I can
>certain attest is probably the hardest job in WSFA.
>
>Personally, I think that everyone is getting tense because we have a
>convention coming up.  I think everyone should just calm down, focus
>on the convention, crash for a couple of weeks, and then, if people
>still think there is a problem to be addressed, that's the time to do
>it, but not the week before our convention.

Since it's poor nettiquette to post a "me too" response, let me say "My
thoughts exactly!" instead.

I'll also note that unless you (or someone) forwards a copy to Lee
directly, she is highly unlikely see this good advise, since she's
unsubscribed from this list as of yesterday.

-- Mike B.

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