From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: ROBERT DEWER, Chill out...
Date: 1998/01/23
Date: 1998-01-23T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01bd2854$af3211e0$c0f682c1@xhv46.dial.pipex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6aajie$4v6$1@news.nyu.edu
Ah but no! When Dr Dewar gets behind that keyboard, a hideous
transformation takes place: the normally placid doctor becomes a MONSTER!!!
R. L. Stevenson wrote a book about him, in fact.
We love you really RD xxxxx ;-)
--
Nick Roberts
Croydon, UK
Proprietor, ThoughtWing Software; Independent Software Development
Consultant
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*** Always game for a verbal joust (usually as the turkey) ***
Adam Donahue <donahue@acf2.nyu.edu> wrote in article
<6aajie$4v6$1@news.nyu.edu>...
> I have to jump in and say that, knowing Robert Dewar personally (he is a
professor
> of mine), what might appear as "rudeness" in e-mail is merely
matter-of-factness.
> Just because he doesn't happen to dot every sentence with a string of
smilies does
> not mean he's on the rampage. It's all about tone people; tone is not
conveyed well
> via ASCII! (Was I yelling just then, or just making a point? See what I
mean?) I
> have only known the man to be most polite and good-humored in person, and
I highly
> doubt he makes a sudden transformation when reading e-mail! :-)
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-01-14 0:00 ROBERT DEWER, Chill out Scott Barrish
1998-01-22 0:00 ` Charles F Hankel
[not found] ` <dewar.885449413@merv>
1998-01-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-23 0:00 ` Thornton
1998-01-23 0:00 ` Paul Van Bellinghen
1998-01-24 0:00 ` Scott Barrish
1998-01-24 0:00 ` James Hopper
1998-01-23 0:00 ` Adam Donahue
1998-01-23 0:00 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
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