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Dom,
Your help for Vicki has not gone unnoticed, nor is it unappreciated. I
know that you have tried, as have we all, to help her get going, and Vicki
is making great progress. Any time several people try to help someone,
the advice will sometimes be a bit confusing, but an intelligent person
such as Vicki will sort it all out, and often the very fact that something
IS said differently will make things work out better in the long run.
It is true, Dom, that I am not perfect. Sometimes I leave off things that
might have been added. However, the things I have said were true, even if
not complete.
Now, Dom, please think over your message and tell me – is it not just a
tad out of line for you to be taking a sysop to task for trying to help a
user? I think so. I also think it is out of place for any of us to be
discussing Vicki as a third party. Each of us needs to give our help to
VICKI, and stop * discussing* Vicki in messages to each other. No one
likes to be discussed in this way. Would you?
Betty,
Hi. I was hoping you didn't take my message the wrong way, but I guess you
did.
I certainly wasn't taking you to task and I'm sorry you took it that way.
You've helped Vicki tremendously. I replied to you about Vicki because your
message was handy at the time.
I wasn't criticizing you. I was just offering suggestions as to how you
could better help Vicki. I spoke to her on the phone and I honestly thought
your advice to her might actually create more problems than it solved. I
didn't mean it in a bad way. I actually think it would be better to give
Vicki no advice at all, rather than give her incomplete advice.
The way I see it if you give her advice, she will follow it verbatim. So
if something is left out in the advice, it won't work for her.
I really don't see anything wrong in occasionally discussing Vicki in
messages to each other. It's not like we're saying derogatory things about
her behind her back. My messages weren't about Vicki, per se, but about
advice that all of us were giving Vicki. My messages were for Vicki's
benefit.
But you are right that we should mostly direct our messages to Vicki
directly.
I'm sorry you misinterpreted my messages. They weren't meant that way. I
do appreciate all the help you offer to everyone and I think you do a great
job as SysOp here. I wasn't trying to embarass you or show you up. I hope
you understand.
Bye.
Dom Fontana
As for as I'm concerned, NO ONE could show Betty up — she's the best.
-sja