[Novalug] To the man with the child, manners during meetings?

David A. Cafaro dac at cafaro.net
Mon Nov 5 10:13:06 EST 2007


No no, sarcasm is fine, it just doesn't convey over email to well.   
Generally tags such as:

<sarcasm> I just love the emotional context of email </sarcasm>

Works well, or there's is the ever popular ;-).

Apologies if I took your email to seriously.

-David

On Nov 5, 2007, at 10:08 AM, Frank Hale wrote:
> Apparently you guys are way to serious. WoW! I'll refrain from sarcasm
> from here on out.
>
> On 11/4/07, David A. Cafaro <dac at cafaro.net> wrote:
>> True, good point. I didn't think of that, guess I hadn't thought it
>> through enough before hitting send.
>>
>> -David
>>
>> On Nov 4, 2007, at 9:20 PM, Mark Smith wrote:
>>> i was not there and i clearly don't have the authorization to say
>>> anything here at all, but i will anyway.  an alternate way to ask
>>> for exactly the same thing would be to clearly identify the man and
>>> ask him to email you offline.  if it were me targeted by this email
>>> (not that i would ever be that rude, no not me), i would have
>>> appreciated it done that way.  cheers.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 07:11:28PM -0500, David A. Cafaro wrote:
>>>> PS.  I don't know who you were so could not contact you directly,
>>>> hence I had to post to the list, sorry.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Mark Smith
>>> mark at winksmith.com
>>> mark at tux.org
>>
>> David A. Cafaro <dac at cafaro.net>
>> Cafaro's Ramblings:  www.cafaro.net
>>
>>
>>
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David A. Cafaro <dac at cafaro.net>
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