To the FFML and Tangent:
If this keeps happening, no one will see C&C from me again.
PLEASE, IF I SEND YOU SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T GO TO THE MAILING, DO NOT SEND
IT TO THE LIST! IF IT WAS SUPPOSED TO GO TO THE LIST, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN
SENT THERE.
Tangent, I'm sure you meant well, but what you sent to the list is a
major spoiler for the next chapter of one of my stories. I realize that
part of the message was C&C, but that part wasn't. That was a sneak peek at
how I'm handling the scene in one of my stories. I really would have
appreciated that this hadn't been posted to the list.
Please, people, stop doing this to me. I'm more than happy to share
with you, as long as private messages don't get seen by everyone. I know
I'm not an admin on this list, but I know the FAQ is really strict on that.
IF YOU READ THE FAQ, IT STATES THAT RIGHT IN THERE. In fact, here's a
cut-and-paste from the same thing that happened to me two weeks ago.
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FROM THE FAQ:
"It goes without saying that a private message should be replied
to privately. Do not reply to private messages on the list,
unless the sender gives you permission to do so."
AND ---Alan Harnum said:
----------- also posted patchmonkey@patchmonkey.net's privately-sent
e-mail in this reply, which is both against common Internet etiquette and
against rules laid out in the FFML FAQ.
I'll give ----------------- the benefit of the doubt in this situation, also
taking into consideration the fact that -- apologized. -- can consider
himself strongly warned for posting private e-mail. I have to rule based
on what's in the FAQ, and we've got nothing in it that really forbids the
kind of language -- used in --- original post, so long as ---- using it
against fictional characters rather than listmembers, which falls under the
rule against flaming.
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I understand that Tangent and many other author's are simply trying to
share with the list, but I don't like my private messages being sent around
the world. Again, please don't send my private e-mail, or anyone's for that
matter, to the FFML without permission.
Thank you for your time, everyone.
Sincerely,
Jerry / Patch Monkey
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Jerry Levine
Patch Monkey
"There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the
operations of pure chance..."
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