The one about hijacking threads and thinking the world revolves around you?
Try googling on "Net etiquette" or "Netiquette".
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Do any of you 2 know anything about my issue?
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Hoffman
Sent: 15 September 2003 21:26
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Subject: RE: Deckler wrote a book?!?
Hear hear. It's not like IT professionals are politicians taking
kickbacks
and getting thousands and thousands of dollars in gift money. Doctors
need
a code of ethics because of the nature of their career-path; it's so
amazingly easy to ruin someone's life as a doctor (or save it, of
course).
You tell me where we have such power.
Matt
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From: Ben Schorr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 4:12 PM
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Subject: RE: Deckler wrote a book?!?
The problem with Deckler's "ethics" argument, as Andy pointed out, is
that by his logic if you have Cisco golf shirt hanging in your closet
then you are automatically unethical. Equally absurd is his assertion
that lawyers and doctors don't face the same issues -- my mother is a
medical professional; she spent 20 years in private medical practice in
Los Angeles and I can assure you that there was hardly a pencil holder,
ruler or coffee mug in her home that didn't have the name of some
pharmaceutical on it.
I work for lawyers and I guarantee you that if it's raining hard in
downtown Honolulu you will see attorneys crossing the street with
"Lexis/Nexis" and "Bank of Hawaii" umbrellas. Are we to believe that a
tax attorney with a "Bank of Hawaii" umbrella is unethical because he's
going to automatically steer all of his clients to place their
investment accounts at BankOH?
Greg believes that because I'm a Microsoft MVP that I'm just an
unethical front for Microsoft with a massive conflict of interest and
thus unable to properly represent any other product. A ludicrous
assertion on the face of it: I make no commissions, Microsoft doesn't
know or care how often (or if at all) I recommend their products and my
MVP status is in no way dependant upon my advocating Microsoft products.
Microsoft has not threatened to revoke my status because I have a couple
of Linux boxes down the hall. Microsoft MVPs are often some of
Microsoft's harshest critics; especially to their faces.
The fact is that despite my MVP status my firm is still a WordPerfect
shop. I have a handful of very nice ProLaw pens that the sales rep gave
me and exactly zero seats of ProLaw installed. I have Symantec hats,
pens and Post-It pads...but no Symantec software currently installed.
Epson sent me some promotional pens and laser pointers in exchange for
receiving literature about their new projectors -- I haven't bought a
new projector in about 3 years. If I do, I'll consider Epson along with
several other brands. I'm a CNA with no NetWare installed.
Maybe I am the rare IT guy with nerves of steel, but the fact is that
some vendor giving my knick-knacks, some initials or a free CD of demo
software just isn't going to cause me to recommend a solution that I
don't believe is the best solution.
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP-OneNote, CNA, MCPx4
Director of Information Services
Damon Key Leong Kupchak Hastert
http://www.hawaiilawyer.com
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joel Wampler
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 3:30 AM
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Subject: RE: Deckler wrote a book?!?
maybe i'm missing something here, but i just read that ethics thing and
it looks like this to me
if you ask 100 people on the street who is more professional a doctor or
it guy, probably everyone would say doctor
ergo if it people want to be considered as professional as doctors and
get paid similar salaries then we need to create a professional
governing body and not have silly things like "microsoft" certification
that would be the equivalent of having "pfizer" certification as a
doctor, which dont make no sense
obviously there are some strong feelings about some past history that i
have no idea about but the ethics piece looks like a sound argument to
me
> Same old bag of gas. "IT consultants are all unprofessional except
for me."
>
>
> Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP
> Freelance E-Mail Philosopher
> Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T
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