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To: Greg Dearborn <greg.dearborn@analog.com>
Cc: Carolingia <carolingia@bloom-beacon.mit.edu>, Iain Odlin <odlin@reed.edu>,
        odlin@reed.edu
Subject: Re: Birka 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "19 Jan 94 11:10:43 +0800."
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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 94 14:23:49 -0800
From: Iain Odlin <odlin@reed.edu>

  My Lord Gareth (and everyone on the mailing list):

  First, apologies for the tone of my Birka posting.  I have undoubtedly
  hurt people's feelings, and for that I am sorry.  My experience at Birka
  was less than positive, but -- you are correct -- that hardly excuses
  the choices I made in expressing that dissatisfaction.  Partly, I was egged
  on by the overwhelmingly positive notes and felt a desire to add the voices
  of many of the others of us who attended.

  Second, and tangentially, it strikes me as odd that "Hey, Great event!" isn't
  seen as non-constructive.  It's couched the same way as, "Hey, the event
  sucked."  It's just that one is easier to hear...  [Before people leap on
  me for this too, I'll state now that I know the reasons why, it's just that
  the dichotomy is striking me as strange right now, in the same way that,
  occasionally, a word will seem as though you've never seen it before.]

  Penitentially,
  -Iain