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From: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <nospam@gsg.eds.com>
Subject: Re: The stupidity of all the Ariane 5 analysts.
Date: 1997/08/11
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To: donh@syd.csa.com.au
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Date: 1997-08-11T00:00:00+00:00
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Don Harrison wrote:
>
> Presumably, you're talking about me. :)

Assuming that your name is legion ;-)
 
> P.S. It shows considerably more intestinal fortitude to criticise someone to
> their face rather than where you don't think they'll hear you. Even if they
> don't agree with what you have to say, they may at least respect you for not
> saying it behind their back. :(

Let's see; I post a public message in a forum in which you have been 
participating, and that constitutes saying it behind your back? If you
think 
that I should have sent you an E-mail, plenty of people have been flamed
for 
doing just that, on the grounds that is was an additional copy of a
message that
would already have been read by virtue of having been posted. I am
generally 
very sparing of cc headers in Usenet, and see nothing in my message to
justify ending you an extra copy.

Further, since the comment applied to multiple messages in the thread, I
would 
have had to search out all of the others to get their addresses and
include them 
on the cc header. Or did you think that you were more important than the
others?
 
> Don.
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> Don Harrison             donh@syd.csa.com.au

BTW, why on earth would I include a signature block if I were attempting
to 
criticize someone behind their back?

-- 

                        Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
                        Senior Software SE

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