[meteorite-list] What?!!!
From: Walter Branch <waltbranch_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:41:00 -0500 Message-ID: <001c01cbdf95$c344ac90$0402a8c0_at_Desktop> Hello Michael and List, Your apology was forthright and sincere. Kudos to you. I have also put my foot in my mouth many times over the years on this list and I should know better. From recent memory, I owe apologies to Bill Mason, Sonny Clary Geoff Notkin, and the entire Jet propulsion laboratory. I am sure there are others. Depersonalization is what is it called and what we have to guard against. It is so easy to type on a keyboard then hit "send." Too easy. Easier than regular mail. We write things we would never say in public, not realizing that we literally are writing to a world-wide public audience. To no one in particular and at the risk of sounding paternalisitc (not meanding to) I often tell my patients, "just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD. With the privilge comes responsilbity. Don't exercise responsibility and you lose the privlige. Anyway, off soapbox now. Kudos again to you. Hope to read more of your posts soon. -Walter Branch Received on Thu 10 Mar 2011 09:41:00 PM PST |
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