At 10:49 AM -0500 3/9/01, Tom Mahoney is rumored to have typed:
If I should have sent to the list...I shall.
And, I note, forwarded to the list a message sent by me to you PRIVATELY without my permission. Perhaps you should spend more time learning proper netiquette, and less time b*tching about SmartList. Forwarding mail sent PRIVATELY to a PUBLIC mailing list without the permission of the author is about as low as you can get...which is exactly why I _didn't_ reply to you on-list, but rather privately, suggesting you should have sent your message to the list instead of to me since my views on this issue should be well-known to you from my previous responses. Note I had the decency NOT to send your posting to the list without your permission - something you need to learn immediately before you post to _any_ mailing list on the net. (This improper behavior is grounds for immediate explusion on the mailing lists _I_ operate. I would have expected more from someone at F&M...they appear to have considerably lowered their standards in CS.)
As to the rest...there's no point to my wasting the time responding.
Knock yourself out having the last word...I won't bother replying to you again.
Charlie (who apologizes to the list for this unseemly exchange)