At 08:01 AM 4/30/02, you wrote: >At 10:50 29-04-2002 -0500, Dan Minette wrote: > >>2) Gracefully retreat from positions that prove to be in error. An example >>of this is your claim that you never read a post you quoted > >Er, when did I say that? I tend to have a fairly good memory when it comes >to remembering what I wrote, but I do not remember saying I never read a >post I quoted (after all, how can I quote something I did not read?). > > >>4) Watch for how your arguments play in the community. In particular, you >>can see the responses to your "threat" to put people in you "these bad >>people hurt my feelings" website. No one has written in support of this. > >As I have said before, those pages would show the misbehaviour of people >towards other members, not just towards me (although I still believe I >could fill a few megabytes of webspace with just that). > >The purpose of those pages would be twofold. First, it might encourage >people to keep their behaviour civilised when they know their misbehaviour >will become a matter of public record. Second, it will give others an >indication about the extent to which a poster is to be taken seriously. >Someone with a spotless record can be taken seriously, but someone whose >record measures hundreds of kilobytes or more is likely to be someone to >stay away from, since that person is likely to just start another flame >war when someone disagrees with him. > > >Jeroen
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