4515  For the record

Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:24:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Keith Elshaw" <keith@totango.net>
Subject: [Tango-L] For the record
To: tango-l@mit.edu

Yes, I hope we let go the "appropriate, I don't think so" thread.

But I wish to go on the record as saying I feel this has been a very sad
chapter. It makes me feel sad, for sure.

Someone wronged another and will not apologize for it. The wronged someone
has probably left the group for good. The offender is still here. This is
a shame.

I daresay, if there was a group vote for who to send off the island of the
two, it would have been the other way-round.

Senor Gesualdi did not deserve this. Neither did tango-l. We apparently
(hopefully not forever) have lost an esteemed member.

I say this having already written to Melanie in private putting the case.
And I did tell her that I would support her if her case was proven, etc.
etc.

Except that IF there was an intended PRIVATE communication with her, it
should have remained that way. And been dealt with in private by her. None
of us should ever have heard about it in this way.

The actual content of his message was interesting to many people - who did
not take offence.

My intuition says he had no such intention to personally pursue. Before he
realized the computer mistake of sending his post only to her, she had
crossed the border in force, all guns blazing.

You know the old saying: there are 3 sides to every story - your side, my
side and the right side.

We don't know who of "your's" and "mine" are right in this case; we only
know that the right side (Tango-L)lost.

You have to make things right, Melanie. People apologize all the time when
they understand there is a need to do so. For that, they are always
appreciated.

Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 19:49:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Keith Elshaw" <keith@totango.net>
Subject: [Tango-L] For the record ;-)
To: tango-l@mit.edu

Melanie wrote:

"Sr. Alberto needs to apologize."


Yes, Alberto! You must apologize to all 1100 of us for writing a private
email to one person on the list you might have thought would remain
private ... even if you didn't mean to send it to her! Especially since it
contained English translation of a 1,000-year old text which might have
had something to do with body positions and the tango experience you
thought might be deserve contemplation, and when your correspondent posted
it - some people found it interesting and felt compelled to comment on it!
How dare you!!

Ahem.