Re: Packet radio and foul language
On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 09:28 +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 01:13:06AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 19:13 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > > On Mon, 09 Jan 2006, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote:
> > > > Miles Bader wrote:
> > [snip]
> > >
> > > I, for one, am far more interested in the message than the way which
> > > the message is conveyed.
> >
> > The way the message is conveyed *is* part of the message.
>
> Yes. When somebody puts on a smart suit and tells you, in 'polite' and
[snip]
> being nice to somebody even though you don't like them, that doesn't
> make you a better person, it just makes you a liar.
I said it was *part* of the message. Not the whole message.
Even geeks are social creatures. Thus, even though we can and
should try, we can't totally divorce the message from the medium.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson, LA USA
"Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular
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Anthony Eden, British prime minister
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