Subj : Re: bell's way, and batts
To   : Mike Powell
From : Jay Harris
Date : Mon Aug 25 2025 17:02:30

On 24 Aug 2025, Mike Powell said the following...

 MP> You know, people didn't used to take offense like that but now that is a
 MP> good policy as I have seen people mistake taglines for something the
 MP> author actually typed manually into their message.

I've only had it happen once where I received both a reply to an echomail message and then also a local message on my board complaining about a tagline I used.  It was in reference to Jesus and I guess he found it insensitive.  This was back in the late 90s.

What's funny is, most of the taglines I added to messages were randomly selected and added automatically.  After more than one person pointed out that:

A. That was not part of my message
B. It was randomly selected

He calmed down a bit after that, but still asked that I remove that tagline from my taglines list...

The offending tagline can be found at the bottom of this message.


Jay

.... We love Jesus, yes we do. Baked or broiled or in a stew.

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