On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 04:48:57PM -0600, Julia Thompson wrote: > It has been my experience that given a choice between one massive > hitting-over-the-head kind of confrontation
Although that would be an exaggeration of what I am talking about... > and much gentler prods over the course of 6 months or so, the gentler > prods will have caused more of a change in mindset 12 months after the > initial event. On an email list? I can't imagine that working on an email list. > Now, my experience on this is limited to probably only about 50 > people I've been in close contact with over the course of my life, > but it turned out to be just as good a tactic in dealing with the > cynical engineer as it was in dealing with the somewhat scatterbrained > artiste. So, not on an email list? I think there is quite a difference between an email list and people you have close contact with in daily life. > And sometimes there is just no way a mind will be changed on a > particular subject if you keep arguing with that person; when that > happens, the best thing to do is move on and try not to discuss that > subject. Saying things Yup. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
