Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 19:47:33 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfg1+@pitt.edu> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD spokesman. Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010705193942.045d4100@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3B4514C5.DDC66ACA@pitt.edu> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010705185013.00bb8420@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010705190110.045359a0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010705192156.0454b870@localhost>
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At 07:30 PM 7/5/2001, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: >Because you don't respect the community your are pretending to >represent. Not true at all. HE was being disrespectful to both me and the community by belittling those who were participating in the conversation and hurling gratuitous insults. Responding to him in an appropriate manner was not disrespectful. Incidentally, I respect the community a great deal. If I did not, I would not be here. Nor would I be working to get this community the recognition it deserves. >You just had to be right, even if it meant disrespecting >him. It was a terrible mistake; show us that you learned from it and >don't post again in this list for a month! I don't think that a spokesperson should allow someone who is being rude and derisive -- something that spokespeople frequently encounter! -- to silence him or her. To do so would render that spokesperson utterly ineffective. A spokesperson should be able to deal with hecklers. It's a good test of his or her patience and tenacity. >It was not a matter of fairness, but a good spokesman shouldn't expect >fairness, simply because life is not fair. Life is, indeed, not fair. But people should be. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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