Politeness

The Deviant deviant at pooh-corner.com
Wed Dec 4 21:10:43 PST 1996


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On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, logos wrote:

> Dimitri Vulis wrote:
> 
> >logos <logos at c2.net> writes:
> >>      I have been unfailingly polite to you. Do you have it
> >> within your character to respond to me in kind?
> 
> >Do you think spelling my last name "Vilus" is polite?
> 
>      I think it was neither polite nor impolite. It was
> a innocent transposition error.
>      Correcting the error and apologizing were polite,
> however. Do you disagree?  
>      I have already raised the question of your apparent
> lack of intellectual honesty in that you seem to not apply 
> the same rules of conduct on yourself as you would on 
> others. In English there is the saying, 'what is sauce for 
> the goose, is sauce for the gander'. I note that you have 
> spelt my name as 'logos'. As it is a proper noun in the 
> usage and I have spelt it with the 'L', I would ask you if 
> you consider this spelling of my name to be polite?
>  
> Logos out
>

While I neither agree nor disagree with either of your positions, I must
point out that "Logos" did indeed spell his name as "logos" in his own
message header.

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