Michael Latta wrote:
> Stef,
> 
> I think it is less your english than email.  Email is very bad at 
> communicating inflections.  The inflections on what get said make a huge 
> difference in communicating the subtile meaning of works, and are 
> critical to irony, teasing, and other forms of modifying the intent of 
> words.  Keep up the good work, but leave the inflections to times when 
> you can get them across.

yes, I will definitely follow your advice :)

still I'm a bit surprised at how fast things can blow up. I would expect 
that in a friendly list populated with intelligent people an ambigous 
piece of writing would be given the benefit of doubt, but unfortunately 
this is not always the case. this is sad...

ok it's over now. thanks for your kind words (well maybe they were not 
kind, hopefully I got the inflections right :).


regards,

Stef