Can I suggest that if there are enough of us at NEC weekend after this that perhaps we can schedule a time for us to chat about this with Mary. David ----- Original Message ----- From: Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> To: <aga-sc@thekrib.com> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 10:52 AM Subject: Passiveness > I had to add something more here, before I dissappear off to work. > > Neil, while I realize that it was an attempt to "douse the flames", I > beleive your apology to Mary will get interpreted by her as some sort of > vindication. Nowhere did you say what was really going on, which was that > she sent a hideously ambiguous request for reply, and then threw a hissy > fit when nobody replied. (TWICE even!) It will NOT encourage her to > better communicate. I think there will thus be another similar round > later, and her thinking will be "I was RIGHT last time." All we have done > is postponed things. And next round, now that we've exhausted Neil, Karen > and myself, David will be "it". Then we'll have to find more steering > committee members to take it on. > > I don't even know if this is mutable, i.e. if we can actually change this > into a positive working relationship with Mary. She seems extremely set, > and very negative whenever I've talked to her. I guess from that angle, > maybe Neil was right, as long as we want her in the editor chair, the only > thing we can do is appease her. Clearly you guys know where I stand on > issues like this, so I won't belabor the point. > > - Erik > > -- > Erik Olson > erik at thekrib dot com > > ------------------ > To unsubscribe from this list, e-mail majordomo@thekrib.com > with "unsubscribe aga-sc" in the body of the message. > Old messages are available at http://lists.thekrib.com/aga-sc > When asked, log in as username is "aga-sc", and password "showy". > > ------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, e-mail majordomo@thekrib.com with "unsubscribe aga-sc" in the body of the message. Old messages are available at http://lists.thekrib.com/aga-sc When asked, log in as username is "aga-sc", and password "showy".