"Adult supervision"

Bound, Jim Jim.Bound at hp.com
Wed May 7 12:13:16 CEST 2003


you did not answer my question so I will not answer yours on this mail.
I realize yes or no is not popular but they are very simple words.
/jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Moore [mailto:moore at cs.utk.edu] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 11:03 AM
> To: Bound, Jim
> Cc: moore at cs.utk.edu; edlewis at arin.net; 
> problem-statement at alvestrand.no
> Subject: Re: "Adult supervision"
> 
> 
> > Do you think saying with no other context "this will kill the 
> > Internet" and then sitting down in a meeting is constructive?
> 
> do you think writing up 30 pages of detailed explanation is 
> constructive?
> 
> do you think taking weeks to try to hash out the details over 
> email is constructive?
> 
> in all cases, whether it is constructive depends on what 
> people do with it.  
> 
> sometimes a terse message works better, sometimes not.  
> sometimes no form of input will help.  even so, silence is 
> taken as acceptance, so voicing some objection is better than nothing.
> 
> Keith
> 
> 
> 


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