To: perot@pallas.amp.uni-hannover.de
Subject: Re: [2] Martin's flaming                                                            


On Thu, 16 Jan 1997 13:07:11 Peter Rottengatter <perot wrote: 
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>Dunno. To your response to Martin's message : I'm glad you wrote it, and 
>I think you did it very well. I had not been able to write any reasonable 
>response.

I understand that fully, I didn't know quite where or how to begin myself
at first, but as I sat down to the task it all fell into place.


>Yes, that's what I meant above. After reading his message I sat down and 
>wrote a strong worded response, knowing from the beginning that I'd never
>post it. But it helped a lot to relax. ;-)

Yes, I know the feeling.  I do that too at times, and then edit the results
to reach a level where I still get all the necessary things said, without
using any words (or even attitudes) that could be confused with flaming.
It can be really hard sometimes to find ways of saying how much I dislike
what the other guy said (which I must, to be honest), without lowering my
level of argumentation to the plane he used.

Who knows, he may still come around and cooperate, once he realizes that he
can't just push us around like he tried to, but I am beginning to doubt it.

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Regards:  Ronald Andersson                     mailto:dlanor@oden.se
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