Dale posted on Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:14:50 -0600 as excerpted: > I learned a long time ago to > try to see things in a positive light until sure it is not intended that > way. Trying to put things into text is not easy. Heck, if we were face > to face talking it is hard enough. ;-)
This is going OT but it's worth talking about once in awhile... I too learned quite some time ago to presume positive until there's no other way to take it. Even if it was actually meant in a bad way, what's the harm in innocently not responding in kind? Surely far less than in ignorantly jumping to negative conclusions! How I wish that was something everybody practiced! Not just for me, but for example, I follow the gentoo-dev list and way too often see needless misunderstandings there, simply because somebody took something the wrong way. The issue is often compounded by cross-cultural boundaries and differences in interpretation, etc. Yeah, we need to be sensitive to that if we know about it, but some things just can't be known before you stumble into them! =:^( So then sometimes I jump in and try to smooth things over... Mixed results, but if it helps sometimes, it's gotta be worth trying! -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
