Re: Public Legal Notice to Don Erway, NDC Systems, Monrovia, CA

Tom Hogarty (hogarty@pyramid.com) wrote: : Hey Joe, : I appreciate your concerns regarding the noise of irrelevant mailing to CDI, I : often feel the impulse to make a statement about the various non technical : messages from time to time. IMHO this impulsive action only exacerbates the : situation. It's always a tossup....do you jump into a thread that's wasting everybody's time (therefore **adding to** the time-wasting yourself) or just ignore it? I've done them both. My current strategy is, if you can add something that has a chance of killing the thread, go ahead and do it. If you just add to the contentiousness by saying something like "me too" or "f*** you", don't do it. I believe that the trick is to add information, not invectives. With companies posting inappropriately, I usually try ridicule. For example, off-topic job postings often come from folks who waste our time and ingore netiquette for a living. Appealing to them not to waste our time is useless. But, if they (or their managers) see the company looking like an idiot and not just a nuisance, they may see that is not in their best interests and that they are harming their corporate reputations, not to mention risking being held accountable by their bosses for ruining their images. With CJ3, the only solution is to killfile him. FWIW Joe -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Lumbley(jlumbley@netcom.com) Dallas, Texas ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Lumbley(jlumbley@netcom.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------