Re: Accident US 95

["Wolfgang Schwartzenweintraub" <wolfman@turbonet.com>]

I really believe it would be gentel of to not respond to your comments any
longer.  You are performing for the entire vision20/20 group and the
substance of your rhetoric is not direct nor germain to my statements to you
that were made by myself.  Good bye Mr. Hoffman.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Hoffmann" <escape@alt-escape.com>
To: "Wolfgang Schwartzenweintraub" <wolfman@turbonet.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: Accident US 95


> Mr. Schwarzenweintraub,
>
> Sorry to have caused offense.  You meant THAT indigenous population.  If
> you can demonstrate that only Native Americans from Moscow are getting
> killed in highway accidents, then your statement "we are going kill the
> entire indigenous population of Moscow, Idaho this twenty first century"
> might be correct.  Except for the contention that WE would be doing so,
> unless you mean that we are culpable due to our negligence.  Then again,
> those 3,500 Native Americans have a reproduction rate which would
guarantee
> survival even with a highway mortality of 35 per annum.  I know, you were
> just trying to give a here-and-now presentation of century data.  You did
a
> poor job of explaining, and I did a poor job of understanding.
>
> The propriety of your claim is still in question.  Why not just say "this
> will result in the deaths of 3,500 people in this century."  I think that
> most of us can multiply 35 x 100 in our heads, so that would have been
> obvious.  Your comment was not so much speculation (as you stated), but a
> poorly chosen (or perhaps poorly understood) comparison.   This now
becomes
> a matter of style, and not substance, so I don't see the reason for either
> of us to get hot under the collar.
>
> I'd like to mention another matter.  It is considered a breach of
> "netiquette" to rebroadcast private comments over a public forum without
> the author's permission.  I sent you a message in private, and you
> redistributed the contents to the whole group.  You could have responded
to
> me in private (as I had to you).  The reasons for this guideline are many,
> but it does boil down to good manners online.  As hot as the discussion
may
> become, it is a common ground that people on mailing lists try to hold--as
> I do religiously.  Specifically in this case, I was questioning your
> credibility, but was too courteous to do so in a public forum.  You were
> defending your credibility in front of people who were not privy to my
> initial comments.  This did not contain the disagreement, but expanded
> it.  If we have disagreements in style or substance in the future, I hope
> we can handle them in a more genteel manner.
>
>
> Bob Hoffmann
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> Moscow, ID  83843  USA
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