From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: *** X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, RATWARE_MS_HASH,RATWARE_OUTLOOK_NONAME autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c21af9a0f87d174a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Nick Roberts" Subject: Re: ROBERT DEWER, Chill out... Date: 1998/01/23 Message-ID: <01bd2854$af3211e0$c0f682c1@xhv46.dial.pipex.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 319046202 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <69jftk$b97@mtinsc02.worldnet.att.net> <6aajie$4v6$1@news.nyu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Organization: UUNet UK server (post doesn't reflect views of UUNet UK) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-01-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Ah but no! When Dr Dewar gets behind that keyboard, a hideous transformation takes place: the normally placid doctor becomes a MONSTER!!! R. L. Stevenson wrote a book about him, in fact. We love you really RD xxxxx ;-) -- Nick Roberts Croydon, UK Proprietor, ThoughtWing Software; Independent Software Development Consultant * Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com * Voicemail & Fax +44 181-405 1124 * *** Always game for a verbal joust (usually as the turkey) *** Adam Donahue wrote in article <6aajie$4v6$1@news.nyu.edu>... > I have to jump in and say that, knowing Robert Dewar personally (he is a professor > of mine), what might appear as "rudeness" in e-mail is merely matter-of-factness. > Just because he doesn't happen to dot every sentence with a string of smilies does > not mean he's on the rampage. It's all about tone people; tone is not conveyed well > via ASCII! (Was I yelling just then, or just making a point? See what I mean?) I > have only known the man to be most polite and good-humored in person, and I highly > doubt he makes a sudden transformation when reading e-mail! :-)