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Re: Pledge To Killfile a person



On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 12:42:37PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> 
> >Looks like a perfectly justified response to me.
> 
> Which is the basic problem isn't it?  Communication involves not only how 
> responses look to oneself but how they look to other people.
> 
> There's no need for any platonic ideal of justified speech.  Just count 
> the number of people who like your style versus the number of people who 
> are pissed off by it and adjust accordingly.

I reject this notion that communication is a popularity contest.

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