[meteorite-list] Apology to the List

[Darryl Pitt]

Just saw this.

Bernd, I completely agree with Walter.  Your note was innocent and  
warm spirited---the sort of thing you do.

I'm the one who kicked it up a notch.

SORRY!!



On Jan 21, 2009, at 11:31 AM, Walter Branch wrote:


> Hello Bernd,

>

> I think it is fairly safe to say that you have nothing to apologize  

> for.

>

> The day of the 9-11 attacks?  You were among the first to post what I

> thought

> was a thoughtful and sympathetic post.  Many people did.  That post  

> wasn't

> meteorite-related but it was appreciated.

>

> I remember a few years ago a certain list member went off on some  

> diatribe

> (as he usually did) and after your response, he stopped posting.   

> You did

> the list a service then, as you usually do.  That post wasn't

> meteorite-related either, but it was appreciated.

>

> Nothnig to apologize for.  I understood your post for what it was  

> intended

> to be, wishing a country well.

>

> -Walter Branch

>

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> ----- Original Message ----- From: <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de>

> To: <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>

> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 10:05 AM

> Subject: [meteorite-list] Apology to the List

>

>

>> Hello All,

>>

>> Phew, what a shock it was when I read all those mails. I did not

>> expect to polarize listees and listoids into pro-XY and anti-YX.

>>

>> "Just don't do it on a List that's devoted to meteorites."

>>

>> "It only takes *one* to correspond to start the ball rolling"

>>

>> That *one* was me and I now see I shouldn't have posted that mail.

>> It was not meteorite-related and presidential elections are a far cry

>> from meteorites. I just shouldn't have brought it up!

>>

>> Please, accept my apologies!

>>

>> Bernd

>>

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