"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"
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> --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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