From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 5 15: 6:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (quackerjack.cc.vt.edu [198.82.160.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E7031553E for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 15:06:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Received: from sable.cc.vt.edu (sable.cc.vt.edu [128.173.16.30]) by quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA07772; Wed, 5 May 1999 18:06:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.63]) by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA05919; Wed, 5 May 1999 18:06:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 18:06:22 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: "Matthew N. Dodd" Subject: Re: PCWeek article by Anne Chen -- Comments Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Dale Anderson , Brett Glass Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 05-May-99 Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > On Wed, 5 May 1999, Brett Glass wrote: >> At 03:49 PM 5/5/99 -0400, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: >> >Anyone who brandishes an IT title is more than likely clueless. >> >> There, THAT'S the way to win customers. Not. > > Are you illiterate or am I just being too subtle again? > > Notice I said 'brandishes' and 'more than likely'. > > By 'brandishes' I mean 'someone to whom titles and TLAs mean more than > hard facts.' I thought that was clear. > > You also cleverly snipped the sentence that followed the above in which I > qualified the statement. I think his point (and I could be wrong) is that if an IT reads your message, they will be turned off. Kernel hackers and other people may get your message perfectly fine, but you have to consider the entire scope of your audience. If someone goes to their IT manager to request permission to setup a FreeBSD box, and then he/she happens to stumble across a quote like that while researching FreeBSD for some reason, then the manager may tell the employee no just out of spite. --- John Baldwin -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message