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Re: I'm not going to listen to this any more.

2005-06-30 07:32:22
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 01:48:03AM -0400, Dean Anderson wrote:
Since when are _true_ facts about liars on a subject (open relays)  
discussed in an IETF RFC, egregious?  Is it against list policy to assert
that the IETF should be honest, and not associate with liars?  I missed
that part. Perhaps you could be so kind as to point it out?

Dean, 

        I would suggest to you that calling someone a "liar" could be
considered by some a personal attack.  More importantly, though, it
generally causes people to simply ignore you as a rabble-rousing
troll, and to ignore everything else that you write.  If it were not
for my responsibility as a "sargeat-at-arms", I would have added you
to my kill file long ago, not because you get me angry, but because
most of what you write is simply not worth my time to read.

        Calling someone a "lair" is making a claim that they are
knowingly stating a falsehood.  However, making assumptions about
another person's motivations is never a good thing to do if you are
trying to promote conversation.

        They may have observed a different set of facts in their
geography or in the circles they frequent; they may see a few cases
which you consider to be highly important which they classify as
unimportant exceptions; they may simply be mistaken.

        Instead of writing a treatise about lairs and defamtion law,
it would have helped moved the debate forward if you had written what
you have observed, why you think it is an important indicator, and
what you think people should consider, in a calm, reasonable tone of
voice, without questioning other people's motivations, ethics, or
morals.  But if you don't care about helping out the IETF, please
consider doing it because it will make it more likely that people will
chose to read what you write, instead of simply deleting or
autodeleting all e-mail messages from you.  It is in _your_ interest
to post in a more reasonable, more moderate fashion.

        Regards,

                                                - Ted

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