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maxine in ri[_1_]

On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 21:15:22 GMT, (Curly
Sue) connected the dots and wrote:

~On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 19:48:32 GMT, The Bubbo >
~wrote:
~
~>Victor Sack wrote:
~>> Melba's Jammin' > wrote:
~>>
~>>> "A few professors said they had rules for e-mail and told their
students
~>>> how quickly they would respond, how messages should be drafted
and what
~>>> types of messages they would answer.
~>>> Meg Worley, an assistant professor of English at Pomona College
in
~>>> California, said she told students that they must say thank you
after
~>>> receiving a professor's response to an e-mail message.
~>>> "One of the rules that I teach my students is, the less powerful
person
~>>> always has to write back," Professor Worley said."
~>>
~>>> Go, Meg!
~>>
~>> She says she was misquoted.
~>> <http://groups.google.com/group/ba.food/msg/d11a940b288acb03>.
~>>
~>> Bubba
~>
~>I was interviewed in an arizona newspaper once for a web project I
was working
~>on. I was completely misquoted and they made me sound like some
cocky, uppity
~>bitch. I was so irritated.
~>
~>--
~
~When one calls a company a recording often says "This call may be
~recorded (for some bogus reason)." I wish those recording things
were
~easier to come by and use for the rest of us.
~
~I also find it discouraging to hear that newspapers won't run
~someone's words by them before printing them.
~
~Sue(tm)
~Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

What? You want them to give you a chance to retract what you said
before they blatt it all over their medium? OTOH, I guess I was
lucky. When the fellow from the Boston Globe interviewed me, he got
all my quotes right.

Meg is the one who always ended her posts"rage away"
I liked that.

maxine in ri