Hello Friends:

Indeed, Brice, the sting of such a rebuke can linger for months afterward. Plainspoken, shorthand invectives feel good at the time they're used. I believe they do little to foster community, or the exchange of knowledge. Last I heard, that's what this mailing list was started to do. 

HP's David Parsons, a VP who started up the Technology Forum, compared this kind of scrap to a hockey game. He was talking about the old management roundtables we savored, where give and take stung like that rebuke. "Some people come to a hockey game to see the fights," he said. "We're not running a hockey game here." At least those invectives were hurled in person. That's takes even more moxie than exhorting from a keyboard.

Gad, I've quoted an HP marketing VP, in an Off Topic posting. My second in one day. I've used up my quota for the rest of 2006.

At least I haven't exceeded my five-minute OT limit.

Ron Seybold
3000 NewsWire

----- Original Message ----
From: Brice Yokem <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 4:55:22 PM
Subject: Re: OT:Mars

I know I'm not alone in wondering how this list got so abusive and 
divisive.

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Ron -

To enlighten you about how this all started, check out the following link.

http://raven.utc.edu/cgi-bin/WA.EXE?A2=ind0606A&L=HP3000-L&D=0&I=-
3&X=15A1D863B19C089FC5&Y=byokem%40yahoo.com&P=1624

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