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Date:      Thu, 05 Jul 2001 19:22:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD spokesman.
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010705192235.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010705190110.045359a0@localhost>

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On 06-Jul-01 Brett Glass wrote:
> At 07:00 PM 7/5/2001, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
>>While you are perhaps pedantically correct in that you used 'To:'
>>instead of 'Cc:' you most certainly have violated the spirit of
>>his request.
> 
> I don't think that he should have expected no response after
> posting a slanderous remark. I meant what I said: I don't intend 
> to put him on the cc: list for future exchanges on the list. But
> I certainly think that it was fair and appropriate to answer.

That is not what you said.  You said "I won't cc you."  That is a vague
statement that can easily cover the e-mail it was a part of.  What you should
have said then was what you meant:  "I won't cc you on any future exchanges
after this reply."  A spokesman has to be clear in communicating the message to
the audience, except when explicitly using ambiguity.  I'm not arguing about
whether or not what you said or he said was fair or not.  I'm just giving you a
tip as it were, and trying to help you see what it can like when other people
read your e-mails.

> --Brett Glass

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