From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jul 5 19:22:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B2F3237B40B for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 19:22:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 41273 invoked from network); 6 Jul 2001 02:22:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 6 Jul 2001 02:22:39 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010705190110.045359a0@localhost> Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 19:22:35 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Brett Glass Subject: Re: FreeBSD spokesman. Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/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