Re: Apologies to Melissa

The True Melissa <[email protected]> posted:
> Will Dockery wrote in article <[email protected]>:
> > 
> > The True Melissa <[email protected]> posted:
> > > 
> > > At one, I said that I would not want to listen to a song without 
> > > rhyme or meter. He responded by pushing something called "Red-
> > > Lipped Stranger" at me three separate times in rapid succession, 
> > > the last begining with "You rang?" to imply that I'd asked for 
> > > what I explicitly said would be "a hard listen." 
> > > 
> > > I did not realize he was deliberately trying to punish me. :-) 
> > > Glad I didn't listen to it. 
> > 
> > I wasn't.
> 
> I know you weren't. I was joking with Michael, since I too don't 
> see any sensible reason for the "original text restored" junk. 
> 
> Do you understand why people object to this stuff, or do you just 
> assume that objecting must mean I'm some kind of bad person? 
> 
> It gets old, Will. It gets really, really old. The group's 
> flooded with 70 or more messages every day, and very few of those 
> should have been posted. You ignore gentle feedback, but when 
> anyone gets more forceful, you say you're the victim of an evil 
> troll. 
> 
> > Sorry I bothered you.
> 
> It's okay. 
> 
> I've decided to move on. I'm going to unsubscribe, for now at 
> least. There are better things I can do on Usenet than try to 
> revive the poetry community specifically. There are plenty of 
> other groups which are merely empty, not flooded. 
> 
> I doubt you believe it, but I don't wish you any harm. 

Thank you Melissa, and the best of luck to you.

😏

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Poetry and songs of Will Dockery:
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