Posted by Dr. Bob on January 10, 2006, at 23:25:14
In reply to Re: Another technical question » Dr. Bob, posted by Dinah on January 10, 2006, at 9:42:24
> So it's ok to send babblemail to a poster who's asked you not to post to them?
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> crazy teresaMy guess is that if someone doesn't want to be posted to, they probably don't want to be babblemailed, either. But they could always specify otherwise.
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> Well, that didn't exactly answer the intent of my question. Which is that if one has inadvertantly offended another, and been asked not to post to that person, but wishes to express regret, in general, and not by posting to that person, for their part in any discord on the board, how would one go about it?
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> Because Alexandra seemed to be saying "I'm sorry that sometimes I ...", and I can't see how it's in the best interests of the board to not allow expressions of regret at least to the board in general.
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> DinahThanks for not giving up. :-)
Maybe one way to operationalize it would be, *could* the post be read as being to the poster who asked not to be posted to? If so, then it's not clearly to the board in general. For example:
i never meant to hurt you
- is clearly to the posteri never meant to hurt
- is ambiguous, and the poster could feel posted toi never meant to hurt her
- is clearly to the board in generalBob
poster:Dr. Bob
thread:597435
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20051205/msgs/597831.html