Re: another apology

["Franz Schoenhofer" <schoenho@via.at>]

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Von: FRAMEP@ORAU.GOV <FRAMEP@ORAU.GOV>
An: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Datum: Montag, 26. Jänner 1998 20:18
Betreff: another apology


>Let me apologize for the distress my previous message caused. I was
>attempting,  inadequately, to reply in a light hearted manner to Franz
>(whose post, I thought, was both informative and humorous).  The
>comment at the end of his message that any flames were welcome was
>too much to resist. While no flame was intended on my part, my
>obviously inadequate attempt at humor clearly came off as one.
>
>I had hoped that my comments (about electroscopes still being used at
>Vienna for example) were too outlandish to be taken seriously.
>Unfortunately,  my clumsiness clouded the picture. I certainly had no
>intention to insult the work now going on in Vienna  or that which went
>on in the past (the USA's oldest radioactivity standards in the US were
>produced in Vienna) .
>
>Again my apologies
>
>Paul
>
>I can state for a fact however that electroscopes were used here in Oak
>Ridge into the 1970s.
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Paul,

There is no necessity for an apology. When talking to each other one can
guess the intention of the speaker from the way he speaks - this is not
possible when exchanging e-mails!

With my best regards and best wishes,

Franz