Although WC is the last remaining forum of this sort from which owing to its noteworthily liberal policies I haven't been summarily ejected, this post has only marginally to do with language and so if it doesn't meet WC protocol please feel free to move it to a more remote forum or even delete it if you feel it might ruffle a feather or two; but I felt compelled to provide Porc a greater sense of participation in spite of his qualms, by the following email to a buddy which by coincidence seemed applicable

But zm, if you wish to delete it entirely and if it doesn't require too many keystrokes please feel free to do so. However I'd be indebted if you could leave it up for a while, long enough for other new members to peruse. Thank you most kindly--Dale

Hi Curt:

...every so often I get an email from someone who wishes to be removed from my Contacts folder, whereupon I cheerfully comply as many folk are the victim of excessive spam, while so many of us need something to get angry about. Occasionally I point out that there’s another alternative, simply click on the black X in the taskbar across the top of the screen, with a single keystroke bam it’s gone forever. But I guess many resent having to do even that

Alas however, I can understand as my posts are probably not so clever as I imagine, while my persiflage rubs many the wrong way while my parsimony in punctuation positively inflames the prescriptive soul

Recently I was banned from another board for what its Admin considered an OT thread even though in the post itself I cheerily invited its Admin to delete if it didn’t meet protocol, as I have done above, while it survived two other boards of that sort with nary a whimper


http://wordsmith.org/board/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/173047/page/1#Post173047

http://www.wordwizard.com/ch_forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=20337


Until I was summarily thrown off most of them I participated in six such boards, each having a different set of protocol. On one, you were forbidden from mentioning or linking to another such board (for fear, I suppose, or losing participants). On a second, it was ok to link to another board so long as you didn’t identify it by name, while on a third you could ID it but give no link; on a fourth, one of the most liberal, you could both specify title and provide a link

Given about a dozen such regulations and admonitions for on each board, there were at least 72 rules one had to remember. As I can’t keep track I’ve concluded that I must be a really terrible person. I’ve made NY’ Resolutions to the contrary but I always backslide

Some dispatch you indefinitely, which is to say forever, while other let you back in after a fixed time when they will have considered you sufficiently chastened. Of course, I’ve pointed out it’s their loss not mine and anyhow I spend too much time screen sucking; but in any case what tempests in teapots these be

But nonetheless I abjectly apologize to all who consider my email as spam and invite any remaining amongst my Contacts to so advise. I am yours, dalehileman@verizon.net

Best to all for a happy and eventful NY
...(in the present context, for those who voted for Bush, that means New Year, not New York)

Forgive, couldn't resist the temptation

dalehileman