Re: RARA-AVIS: Sincere Apologies

From: Jim Beaver ( jumblejim@prodigy.net)
Date: 07 Oct 2005


On Rara-casions, I think about leaving this list. And then someone does something particularly classy, like this, and I feel just great about being here.

Jim Beaver
----- Original Message ----- From: "JIM DOHERTY" < jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com> To: < rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 9:49 AM Subject: RARA-AVIS: Sincere Apologies

> To the members of the RARA-AVIS list:
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> I would have posted this sooner, but didn't realize my
> message to Miker (who I've already sent a personal
> apology to) had caused such an uproar.
>
> I've been away from the list for several days (this
> last month I've been working three jobs instead of my
> usual two, which is why I was posting so little until
> the recent donnybrook), and the first of the 140-odd
> messages that had piled up was Richard's.
>
> I HAD intended my remarks to Miker to be taken
> toungu-in-cheek. I'm profoundly sorry they were
> misunderstood. And I'm sorry for causing a rift in
> the collegiality that has always marked this list even
> at its most intense.
>
> I'm not apologizing for the substance of the comments.
> I AM aplogizing for the manner in which they were
> made.
>
> If any of you are going to Magna Cum Murder later this
> month, I'll add f2f apologies to the written one I'm
> offering now.
>
> JIM DOHERTY
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