[meteorite-list] Apology to the List

From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:34:19 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <521720.80735.qm_at_web110601.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

I have to second Walter here.
Bernd, you did nothing more than wish our nation well, and I appreciate that.
It was not you that made a political remark, but others and it snowballed.
Too bad that just wishing a country and it's new president well must be taken and twisted.
Michael Farmer



--- On Wed, 1/21/09, Walter Branch <waltbranch at birch.net> wrote:

> From: Walter Branch <waltbranch at birch.net>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Apology to the List
> To: Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 9:31 AM
> Hello Bernd,
>
> I think it is fairly safe to say that you have nothing to
> apologize for.
>
> The day of the 9-11 attacks? You were among the first to
> post what I
> thought
> was a thoughtful and sympathetic post. Many people did.
> That post wasn't
> meteorite-related but it was appreciated.
>
> I remember a few years ago a certain list member went off
> on some diatribe
> (as he usually did) and after your response, he stopped
> posting. You did
> the list a service then, as you usually do. That post
> wasn't
> meteorite-related either, but it was appreciated.
>
> Nothnig to apologize for. I understood your post for what
> it was intended
> to be, wishing a country well.
>
> -Walter Branch
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de>
> To: <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 10:05 AM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Apology to the List
>
>
> > Hello All,
> >
> > Phew, what a shock it was when I read all those mails.
> I did not
> > expect to polarize listees and listoids into pro-XY
> and anti-YX.
> >
> > "Just don't do it on a List that's
> devoted to meteorites."
> >
> > "It only takes *one* to correspond to start the
> ball rolling"
> >
> > That *one* was me and I now see I shouldn't have
> posted that mail.
> > It was not meteorite-related and presidential
> elections are a far cry
> > from meteorites. I just shouldn't have brought it
> up!
> >
> > Please, accept my apologies!
> >
> > Bernd
> >
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