ELL: list purpose

[Megan Crowhurst]

I agree; the kind of display B-W has treated us to seems counterproductive, as
well as unpleasant.  A shame.

Greetings,
Megan

Quoting Lucas Husgen <lhusgen at kirogi.demon.nl>:

> I do wonder, why should anyone be treated like this publicly? I do not
> even understand what this is all about and I do not want to understand.
> If someone to anyone's mind did make a mistake in some quarter, please
> tell her privately. It's such a sorry sight how, wherever you go,
> members of whatever mailing list resort to this kind of public stoning
> every once in a while.
>
> Hartelijke groeten,
>
> Lucas
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine" <brunner at nic-naa.net>
> To: <endangered-languages-l at cleo.murdoch.edu.au>
> Cc: <inge.genee at uleth.ca>
> Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 9:38 PM
> Subject: Re: ELL: list purpose
>
>
> > Ms. Genee,
> >
> > I think your issue was that I am indifferent to your angst-filled
> contribution
> > to ell, as I replied to your off-list difflection that corresponding
> with some
> > Siksika speakers beats reading the current (burst of post-Gurnsy)
> ell-traffic.
> > You found that insufficiently "polite". Fine. You have some indians,
> filter
> > their email for spam, and protect them from indians who think most
> Europeans
> > lack clue, even the "nice" FOB ones. They must be very glad to have
> such a
> > fine friend.
> >
> > Anyway,
> > There are indian-only telecoms lists,
> > There are indian-only datacoms lists,
> > there are lots of indian lists,
> > and Treaty7 does a better job of providing email services, and the
> Siksika
> > Curriculum Committee does a better job of providing Siksika-language
> service,
> > than ULeith does. The ULeith NAS 1000 (Siksika) curriculum is utterly
> lame.
> >
> > You carefully "appologize to anyone who may have interpreted me in the
> way
> > Eric suggests", which isn't the same thing as fessing up to having
> made a
> > mistake, or knowing indians without controlling indians.
> >
> > In the spirit of reciprocity, I've sent you the address of a Dutchman.
> Jaap
> > is quite old enough to know what to do with email that doesn't meet
> his own
> > criteria for what is interesting enough to bother with.
> >
> > Kitakitamatsinopowaw,
> > Eric
> >
> >
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