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Brad Knowles
brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Thu Feb 16 02:32:20 CET 2006
At 2:08 PM -0800 2006-02-15, Beartooth wrote:
> I hope it didn't sound like I was trying to teach you to suck
> eggs.
No, I didn't take any offense at what you had said. I was trying
to explain my personal perspective and the issues I felt needed to be
balanced, but I was also trying to explain that although I might feel
this way that I will comply and implement whatever the official
policy is determined to be.
I think I remember what that official policy is, but I will check
to make sure.
> In my last job, it turned out often that precisely the Alpha
> Plus Technoids were glad to hear an articulate description of what
> things looked like to the UNinitiated, whose thoughts they had gotten
> far beyond; so I got in the habit of doing that.
It's been twenty years since I was on that side of the fence.
You are right that it is good to be occasionally reminded of what
that's like.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad at stop.mail-abuse.org>
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania
Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755
LOPSA member since December 2005. See <http://www.lopsa.org/>.
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