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Re: When is it appropriate to "take it to email" and when isn't it?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sat, 23 Jun 2001 14:11:36 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ross Crawford writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > > Some good discussion but nobody answered this question the way I expected,
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> > Aint diversity wonderful? 8?)
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> Sure. Let me clarify the above. If we consider a spectrum of discourse from
> perfectly normal well intentioned fact and issue centric debate at one end,
> on through somewhat worse all the way to vitriolic insult orient fact free
> flamage at the other end. Consider that spectrum. I think "take it to email"
> as a useful (and, therefore reasonable) approach works for exchanges
> somewhere in the middle of that spectrum. For ones that are at the first end
> (AOK) it's not needed.
But not unreasonable. Sure, some others may miss out on stuff of interest, but
I don't think that makes it any less reasonable.
> For ones at the other end it's not effective,
Thats a sweeping statement, and not always true. Sometimes continuing a
conversation privately *can* bring positive results. I think it's always
reasonable to try.
> and
> therefore not reasonable.
[snip]
> When is an action that is not the right course, and which is
> known to not be right in advance, a reasonable course?
Who decides in advance whether or not it's right? I think it's always
reasonable to try - whether it turns out to be right or not isn't known in
advance.
> Answer that to see why I thought shorthanding "always a reasonable" to
> "always" was equivalent. That is, I don't think it's always reasonable.
Understood. Just that the original mail asked about "always the correct
course".
ROSCO
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