Subject: Re: newbie question
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 04:29:54 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3234313794269564@naggum.net>

* Paul D. Lathrop
| For reference I would like to say that that line was misread.  The
| connotation I intended (and obviously failed to project) was: I, unlike the
| other people you have been dealing with, who piss you off in exactly the way
| I have done, can admit when I am wrong and learn from that mistake.

  Well, that is in fact a fairly likely interpretation which I overlooked due
  to my frustration with being blamed for wrong-doing no matter what I do -- I
  get a lot more pissed off by people who attack me for things I have not done
  than for what I have done, which is can at least see coming.  Thanks for
  clarifying and making your apologies come out honest.  Your apologies are, of
  course, accepted.

  Now, I only wish I knew how to discourage those who attack me preventively
  because they think I am going to attack them, anyway: defending themselves
  before anyone attacks them, they can still scream that it is all my fault.
  That _really_ bugs me.  If you have any ideas, I'm all ears.
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