Subject: Public apology to Robin and Colin

From: "Don Allaire" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 18:01:51 -0600

Dear listmember:

I would like to apologize for sending my unprovoked attacks yesterday and
the day prior to Robin and Colin for flaming the newbie.

I said things about them that were unwarrented and definately not
appropriate.  I don't personally know either one of them, and I made
unjustified statements about them.

I also sent those messages to the group without a valid return address, and
that was most rude.  If you were irritated by the post from Speaking Freely,
that was me.

I am sending personal apologies to both of those gentleman immediately.

Sometimes, even people who have been on the net for a while act
inappropriately and I certainly did.  I know that I will attract some flames
for revealing myself, and I deserve them.  Please direct them to me
personally, as I don't want to further impact the list.

I am sorry,

Don Allaire.

---

From: "Colin J. Raven" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 11:46:24 -0800

Dear Fellow List Members,
I am pleased and delighted to welcome Don back...if I recall correctly, (I
may be wrong here) but I believe he's a prolific and knowledgeable
contributor to the Redhat list.
This gentleman has class and courage to post an apology to a worldwide list,
and I encourage everyone to pause and give this action he took some careful
and (sober) thought.
As he stated, he has indeed sent me a personal email, and I am publicly
stating that I received it in good faith, and responded in an honorable
fashion by way of acceptance.
I personally hope that if I ever do someone a real (or perceived) injustice,
I will have the humility and courage to take an honorable course of action
such as this, especially in light of the fact that he could have appeared on
the list under his own personna and no one would ever have known he was the
one who took a couple of us to task.
Now perhaps <grin> we can get back to Pine, and toasting the occasional
individual who darkens our doorway with Microsoft or Armadillo pest control
requests???
Hey Don.....welcome!
-Colin