a silly battle

Introduction is given in my blog Umm... Yeah :A Silly Battle

Well, here is the transcript; his emails in the blue box and mine in the red box

His: (Note his air of superiority and haughtiness. He even included to very first mail to show that I was 'indebted' to him for letting me join his group)

as we had discussed the other day we are expecting ur inputs by tonite....do not haggle on this...u had the whole of today for work....reply to confirm by wat time tonite u are gonna send this ....if i dont get a reply we assume that u are not going to contribute in which case 3rdperson and myself have to think again abt putting ur name as a group member....
obnox.
----- Original Message -----
From: obnoxious
To: my address
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 11:59 PM
wud u join our grp for sbm?..me and 3rdperson in it as of now .... reply asap....

i will send the project by 11.30
> as we had discussed the other day we are expecting ur inputs by tonite....do not haggle on this...u had the whole of today for work....
i don't appreciate such things. it is none of your business whether i have a whole day to work or just a minute to work.
reply to confirm by wat time >tonite u are gonna send this ....if i dont get a reply we assume that u are not going to contribute in which case 3rdperson and myself >have to think again abt putting ur name as a group member....
hmm.. threats, those always seem to work. remember, you asked me to be in your group, not the other way round. don't use such language with me in the future.
> obnox.

agreed i sent u the mail initially re: joining my grp...but me and 3rdperson had already formed a grp by then ....so u were in a distinctly weak position..u had no grp...watever i wrote is not a threat..pls go ahead and do the whole assgn for urself ...we wont put ur name ...no probs at all.....
regarding the following comments of urs....
don't appreciate such things. it is none of your business whether i have a whole day to work or just a minute to work.
we are not interested to know wat u appreciate/dislike ...jus do ur workand send it else forget it and do it alone ..we wont think twice abt striking off ur name
with best wishes
obnox.

(So, just because I am working with him, I should waive my personal preferences and be silent?)

My reply:

more threats....
that too in business ethics class.
weak position? let me tell you something buddy, i turned down two other groups just because i had given my word to you first.
look, i dont want to further this argument. let us do this thing amicably and concentrate on completing the project, ok?

I had started working on the project and just wanted to be left in peace to complete it

For which he replied:

people remember ethics only when they get a dose of their own medicine..rite ??!! the other 2 grps u rejected were quite lucky i guess !!! ya sure jus finish the work..had u listened to me earlier and sent it to me yesterday we wudnt have had such a situation...
have fun...

Listened to him earlier? What? sweat myself over a trifling of a project while I have much important work at hand? We have all the weekend to complete it!

I just said:

FYI, the 2 groups asked me just sometime after you had asked and i had sent the reply, which miraculously you have not received.
as far as the dose of my own medicine is concerned, can you remind me of such an ethical/unethical situation before? listen, i never wanted to start this argument and i dont want it to continue. we all have come here not just to study but also develop a network, camaraderie if you may call it. so, please refrain from using harsh language and let us act with civility, this includes you, me and everybody.

My repeated requests to drop the issue. I even implicated myself in this civility part.

His response:

countless situations and u were involved in many of those......"civility" sounds ironical when u say it !!!!

do u want me to strike off ur name rite now..if not dont send any more replies ..jus send ur work ..that's it...i don wanna waste time with u...

Apparently, he could not come up with any instances. I decided to stop now and have fun later. In addition, I had completed the presentation and it was kind of getting boring. As they always say, Fighting on the internet is like fighting with a pig. You get dirty and the pig likes dirt.