General Lists vs Special Lists

[Rob Cozens]

"Understanding is the booby prize": A lesson relearned...hopefully for good:

You were all kind enough to leave the chastising of me to me and let 
the matter drop; however I found my remarks so out of my idea of my 
character that I had to keep searching for some lesson or meaning.

I recalled an incident on the HyperCard mailing List over four years 
ago, and immediately felt the same feeling of apologetic 
embarrassment.  The person I found it necessary to grovel before 
publicly at that time had committed the sin of having their message 
in my eMail queue just after one of the last messages posted to the 
List by a new member who WAS unrepentingly & continually 
confrontational, just before he was removed from the list.

I recall writing "I had just worked up a head of steam replying to 
..., and I should have taken a deep breath and counted to 10 before 
responding to you."

I thought that lesson would last me a lifetime; but obviously I 
needed a reminder.  Sorry it came at Erik & miscdas' expense; 
hopefully it may save some of you the need to learn this by 
experience.
-- 

Rob