Apology to Mark Plessner

[Paul (E.L.G.)]

My apologies Mark, for not explaining the problem more thoroughly and my
apologies for being sharp. It appears to have been the comment "you know
the score" which was impolite.

I thought that I was polite but sharp, but if Pierre thinks that four lines
constitute "ranting and raving" I will capitulate to his obvious expertise.
 

I should have known that you didn't know the score, I keep forgetting that
we have a linked List / Newsgroup here.  We receive the postings in our
e-mail from Leps-L mailing list and this is linked to the S.B.E.L.
newsgroup, so anything posted in the newsgroup also appears in our e-mail
boxes (and vise-versa)  and for anyone on a slow link it takes forever to
download.

I just assumed that you were a "Leps-L" subscriber and should have known
not to post pictures.

Maybe someone could pop the FAQ file into the newsgroup every now and then.

Paul Batty (Sheffield, England).



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> From: Mark Plessner <markp at markplessner.com>
> To: leps-l at lists.yale.edu
> Subject: Re: monarc (627K)
> Date: 24 September 2000 22:23
> 
> This is Mark Plessner. I apologies for the large file I had no idea that
it
> could even possibly be an inconvenience or inappropriate or just a bad
> thing. I stumbled across this newsgroup, and thought butterfly people
would
> enjoy seeing butterflies as well as writing about butterflies. If I ever
> think I have anything worth contributing in the future, I will most
> certainly get permission first, before making any post, I am sorry if I
> offended anyone in any way.
> Sincerely
> Mark Plessner
> Pierre A Plauzoles <plauzolesp at bigvalley.net> wrote in message
> news:39CE44F2.EC4A786D at bigvalley.net...
> > "Paul , E.L.G." wrote:
> >
> > > Please - no more big binary files to the list. Any of the recipients
on
> > > slow servers will have freaked out at this one.
> > >
> > > Post the picture to your webspace and tell us the url.
> > >
> > > Come on - you know the score.
> >
> > Yes, we all do.  You could do even better by emailing the gentleman
> > privately and without being confrontational about it (explain the
reason
> > and so on), but, given that we who monitor the newsgroup regularly
already
> > "know the score", I see no reason to take up bandwidth on the newsgroup
> for
> > this.  As for the principle of it, I see this posting as rather large,
yes
> > -- to say the least, and especailly for a newsgroup not specifically
set
> up
> > for large graphics files -- but the size of even this file is a mighty
> > small price to pay for the beauty in it.
> >
> > Nest time, before complaining about something like this, please rant
and
> > rave at Bill Gates for the sloppy code in some of his products.
> >
> 
>