Re: to everyone in new york
From: "Keith P. Mears" <kthulu@COMTECK.COM>
To: <CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM>
Date: Wed
12 Sep 2001 01:22:31 -0500
You are STILL missing the point.  Debbi never asked that the topic not be discussed.  How could we NOT discuss it?  The point she was trying to make is that we have ALL seen the graphic details (except you and Tara, who CAN'T see it), and there's no need to continue posting "Yeah, it was pretty sad to see people jumping from the 80th floor".  As I said, she and I have discussed it, and are STILL discussing it, but why should we continue to torment ourselves with the images of people jumping from the 80th floor?  It is possible to discuss our feelings and emotions without a recap of the events.  We KNOW the events; continually being reminded of them is just rubbing salt in the wound.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 1:14 AM
Subject: Re: to everyone in new york

Keith, I was going to keep quiet about this, but you know me...
Debbi had every right to request that the topic not be discussed.  Just as other people had every right to ask that the Windows topic not be discussed... and the ass topic not be discussed.  And they all got the same response... even from Debbi... "just delete it if it's not what you want to read".
Yes, this topic may be hitting Debbi close to home, and that may be why she asked that it not be discussed.  But it is also hitting home for millions of other people who lived in, or near New York and Washington.  And just because Debbi chooses not to discuss what is going on, does not mean that no one else wants to discuss it.  And for a lot of people, it's better to discuss what they are feeling than to hold it inside.
As Tara suggested, perhaps in this case, it would be a good idea to have one single subject line set up just for this topic, so that those who do not want to read it can set up a message filter... but in my personal opinion, Debbi could have asked in a nicer way, and also could have responded in a much nicer way too... keeping with your recent topic regarding the use of the word Fuck and the term LOL in every e-mail.
If she was so offended by the topic, when she was told that it would not stop (as very rarely a topic WILL stop just because of one person's request), instead of saying "Fuck you all" and leaving, why did she not just set up a filter for the topic, or delete on site?
But this is just my opinion (and to borrow from Dennis Miller) and I could be wrong.