Re: Misunderstandings

["Mark McCall" <mark@xxxxxxx>]

Seconded.

Also...if I have given an impression of negativity then that was far from
my
intention.

I love this groups, it's ideas and it's contributors.  Heck...lets have a
group hug

:-))

M.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Nigel Orr" <nigel@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 9:17 AM
Subject: [ukha_d] Misunderstandings


> I have been contacted by email by one member of the group, who has
misread
> my comments about OS's as a personal attack on folk who use Windows.
>
> I don't know how that came about, but I can only apologise if anyone
else
> took them the same way.  Like Calum, I use lots of different systems
> (horses for courses), and wouldn't think of denigrating someone as a
> person, or even their technical competence, because of their choice of
OS,
> it just wouldn't cross my mind.  Sorry if that wasn't clear.
>
> For the avoidance of doubt, and upsetting anyone else, maybe I should
also
> add (lest any of the NI contingent should have misunderstood!) that my
> joking about Portstewart and Scotland as holiday destinations is also
not
> to be taken seriously, having spent every childhood holiday (and a few
> since) at the former destination (with the occasional trip to Barry's
> amusements in Portrush), and most of my recent holidays (and all of
the
> best ones) in the latter.
>
> Funnily enough, I remember working out for my parents that it would be
> cheaper to buy National Trust membership than pay each day to drive
onto
> Portstewart Strand- technical help from an early age (and they're
still
> members...)
>
> Sometimes email gives quite the wrong impression- maybe once we've all
had
> a chance to meet/speak to each other it'll be easier to think who
we're
> writing to.
>
> :-)
>
> Nigel
>
>
>
>
>
>


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