On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:14:02 Bill Potts wrote: >For the record, Marcus, I have often agreed with things you have said here. >Sometimes I say so; sometimes I let others say so.
Well, then forgive me if I don't remember that having occurred. I do pay attention though to these things. > I don't respond to every >post, regardless of my agreement or non-agreement. My treatment of you in >that respect is no different from my treatment of, say, Jim Frysinger, Jim >Elwell, Joe Reid, or any others on this list. > Fine, I'll take your word for it. >What I have never done is claim to disagree with you when I do, in fact, >agree with you. If that is your claim, then I'm at a loss to understand it. > No, absolutely not! I would never assume you would be doing that. I see no reason to question your integrity on this. My 'claim' is that (honestly) I'm yet to see you manifest agreement with me *directly* on posts I mailed to this forum. To me, so far as I can remember, you've been showing more... "hostility" or an "adversarial posture" (for lack of better words) towards me than I'd prefer to see. And I honestly can't fathom why, since I've *never EVER* been disrespectful towards you or your opinions. My philosophy is not to antagonize you or *anyone* here but to try to stick to objectivity in my discussions in this forum. If at any time I failed to do that when involving you, directly or personally, then an apology would be in order. >I stand by my request to stick to SI. >... And as far as I can tell I *have* been, with very little distractions here and there. My discussions with Jim Elwell have been centered around concepts that we felt deserved to be discussed as they have a direct impact on metrication plans we believe would be good proposals for the US to follow. While I and Jim may differ in "methodology" and opinions we are both objective and in very friendly terms with each other. Despite these differences of opinion and all I firmly believe it's fair to say that we both like each other very much and hold each other in high regard and respect, too. Our disagreements won't ever change that! To some here perhaps this may even be amazing given our quite different stances on many issues. But I'd like to believe that it isn't so remarkable after all, why we get along so well. Why? Because I think it's fair to say that we both learned to appreciate each other's inputs to important issues. Also, we tend to show a great degree of respect and objectivity when discussing issues never letting undue emotions control our arguing. To me it's very refreshing and clear proof (and perhaps even example... ;-) ) to many that it is possible to hold (even very!) different positions on issues and still co-exist peacefully, cooperatively and even on *very* friendly terms if we "do it right"! Marcus ____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB of email storage with Lycos Mail Plus! Sign up today -- http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus
