I agree entirely. I genuinely felt happy for the Wrights even though I've never
seen them and am not likely to either- I stay at almost the opposite corner of
the globe from where Shawn does!
I had also decided to stay off this particular topic as I knew it would be
controversial; however, concern for bandwidth should not obscure feelings of
basic humanity and what can be more basic than the birth of a child.
Just my 2 cents. Sorry if I've stepped on any toes.
RK
Garth Wood wrote:
> At 10:54 PM 1/9/99 +0100, Marko Vrabec wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> >Undoubtedly everyone agrees with congratulating Wrights on their newborn
> >baby. I am also sure everyone fully appreciates the time and effort
> >Shawn puts into maintaining this list.
> >
> >However, why on Earth does everybody insist on sending their personal
> >congratulations to the entire mailing list? Do you think your wishes
> >would be appreciated less if you emailed them directly to the person in
> >question?
>
> Marko:
>
> There's one very good reason for this -- it encourages feelings of
> "community" amongst an otherwise-largely-unknown group of people scattered
> across the planet. The amount of bandwidth used to relay these feelings and
> sentiments is entirely trivial in comparison to that.
>
> Garth
>
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