"Adult supervision"

Bound, Jim Jim.Bound at hp.com
Tue May 6 18:39:37 CEST 2003


Fair response I will start watching for the "cliches".
/jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand [mailto:harald at alvestrand.no] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 3:01 PM
> To: Bound, Jim; problem-statement at alvestrand.no
> Subject: RE: "Adult supervision"
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --On tirsdag, mai 06, 2003 12:40:25 -0400 "Bound, Jim" 
> <Jim.Bound at hp.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> > Please don't tell me this does not happen and often or I will start 
> > sending existing working group mail where it happens right now.
> >
> > This is a problem and we should fix it somehow.
> 
> actually that might be a good move....although using examples 
> more than 1 
> month old is probably better for the heat of the debate....
> 
> if I don't have an example in front of me, I can't tell the 
> difference 
> between "I am the Found Of All Wisdom, and you must bow to my 
> words" and "I 
> explained this to you twice, and I will not explain it again 
> until I see 
> that you bothered to think about what I said the first 2 times"".
> 
> one is, as I think everyone agrees, unacceptable; the other 
> is probably 
> unavoidable given our wide disparity of experience (and I'm 
> talking about 
> TYPES of experience, not amount of it - Jim, I think you 
> probably know as 
> little about Unicode sort orders as I know about Decnet phase 5....)
> 
>                     Harald
> 
> 


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