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Originally Posted by Michael Cantor
Bill, if it's a pruning warning, maybe you should put that in the thread title.
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Michael,
Thanks for your thoughts. My worry is that pruning warnings sometimes get ignored (they are, after all, just boring housekeeping messages), and then, once the pruning is done, colleagues write and say, "But, but, I..."
And then, what am I left with to say? Nothing but some lame statement like "didn't you see the warning?" And then they say something like "Yes, but it was too boring to read. I'm a poet, I don't have time for that stuff. And now you've flushed my lovely goldfish / butterfly / song sparrow irrevocably down the toilet. It's a crime against Art and the Muse. A crime, I say! And you, Sir, are a criminal! Off with your head!"
And why? Because *I* made the message too pedestrian, too quotidian! Not that any of this would ever happen, of course. It certainly didn't happen, oh, say, just last month!
Bottom line: two roads diverge in the sacred wood, and I'm screwed no matter which one I take!
Oh, and here's another smilie, just for you. I'm not even close to my quota in this message!
Thanks,
Bill