Hello Matt!

01 Aug 04 23:30, you wrote to me:

 RC>> .. I have been and noticeably absent from all that in many
 RC>> months, ..

 MB> I am pleased to see my occasional rant is enough to keep your interest
 MB> in Fido.

My interest in Fido has not changed, I have been here on the sidelines the
whole time, just used the "next key" more liberally.

 RC>> Thats odd, I made a echo I had available for Bjorns ..

 MB> I notice that you tread *very* carefully when you deal with "certain
 MB> people".

From a social standpoint, thats the ticket..

Thats the epiphany I had a ways back, everyone has different buttons that
can be pushed, why push them accidentally?

If you realized this, you could come off as less abrasive?

 MB>>> Fidonet is not going to get very far with people like Robert
 MB>>> (maybe even you) at the helm.

 RC>> Who says I am at the helm or Robert is at the helm of anything?

 MB> Two former regional coordinators who are always ready and eager to
 MB> jump on others for their apparent lack of technical prowess.  You both
 MB> are welcome to to break my balls when I am wrong; just do your
 MB> homework first.  :-)

I dont think I jumped on you for a lack of tecjnical anything, can you show
me where I did?

I did jump on you for a lack of social skills.

 RC>> You tend to alienate more people than you unite.

 MB> I tend to tell people exactly what I think and not what they want to
 MB> hear.

But you dont listen to what other people think, thats your problem, you are
obsessed with how right you think you are and how wrong you think others
are, as it stands, no one could ever meet with you on differences in the
middle because you wont let them, you sir are perpetually uncompromising.

 MB>>> .. response might have been, "I believe you are wrong but I will
 MB>>> check."

 RC>> Not unreasonable, why didnt you suggest this to Robert instead of
 RC>> taking the swipe at him?

 MB> Why don't you ask him why he took a swipe at me?  ;-)

Why did you pass on the high ground? ;-)

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