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    19-Oct-90  00:36:25
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Fm: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227
To: Frank Hogg 70310,317 (X)

Frank - please allow me to be plainer:

As you indicated, unclear messages can appear to be intentionally misleading.
So can wrong technical information, or even personal opinions.  There's no
debate there.  It especially happens over electronic media.

The problem from my forum standpoint with your and Ed's messages was that you
both took a negative comment about HARDWARE, and replied not with clear
corrective facts, but with PERSONAL attacks and innuendos... and I can't
emphasize how petty, silly, mean and just plain off-the-point that was!

I should know. I did it myself once many years back... and still regret it.

In other words, if y'all want to beat up on each others' machines or opinions,
I don't think most people would really mind.  But there's a heckuva lot of
difference between going into someone's store and saying "your merchandise
doesn't work", versus telling the store owner that "you're a SOB".  And worse,
continuing in that vein more than once.

As a businessman you should appreciate this difference a lot. thx and pax - kev

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