Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 01:31:39 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD spokesman. Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010706012158.0449d990@localhost> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010705192235.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010705190110.045359a0@localhost>
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At 08:22 PM 7/5/2001, John Baldwin wrote: >That is not what you said. You said "I won't cc you." That is a vague >statement that can easily cover the e-mail it was a part of. What you should >have said then was what you meant: "I won't cc you on any future exchanges >after this reply." I wasn't cc'ing him on that message. That message was TO him. >A spokesman has to be clear in communicating the message to >the audience, except when explicitly using ambiguity. If I were in the process of conveying the "official" message to someone who was actually listening, I would indeed be very careful about avoiding the slightest bit of ambiguity. But in this case, I was dealing with a heckler -- a situation in which one can only "win" (or even break even!) by showing grace under fire and being witty where the heckler is mean, irate, or both. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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