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Subject: Re: Is this trip necessary?

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 15:49:27 10/10/00

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On October 10, 2000 at 16:53:19, Dann Corbit wrote:

>I have received a complaint via the moderator request form about a number of
>long threads containing lengthy arguments.
>
>Along the lines of "Is this trip necessary..." I would request that people who
>want to argue have the following options:
>1.  Send an email.  If the difference is personal and between two individuals,
>that would really be the ideal way to settle it.
>2.  Just forget it.  Is it really worth the fuss to try and win the argument?
>3.  Apologize.  Perhaps the ruffled feathers just need a bit of smoothing.  It
>takes a big person to do that, but I suspect that all of the regulars here are
>up to that challenge.
>4.  Go ahead and post your message.  Sometimes, that really is the right thing
>to do.  Obviously, it's a judgement call.  But before you take option #4, (if
>the _real_ meat of your reply is an argument) please ask yourself:
>"Is this post necessary, or can I take one of those shortcuts..."
>
>Just a thought, and you're welcome to tell me to go jump in the lake.  The

Hmmmmm, I hope you're not willing to jump in the lake because of complaints from
the "deniens" about arguing and bickering Chess players and programmers.  I hate
to surprise people, but there will allways be arguing and bickering at CCC,
nature of the beast(s).

Pete

>denizens of CCC are (for the most part) highly intelligent and interesting
>people.  I suspect that if we apply ourselves, we can find extremely productive
>outputs for our creativity.  Though I have not given the threads a careful going
>over, I can tell by the titles that some people are not happy with one another.
>But are the issues really worthy of public argument, or could they be
>straightened out in some other manner.
>
>It's your call.  I won't step in unless I get specific complaints.  Which brings
>up another point:
>If you have any specific complaint, please use the moderator request form, give
>us the message number, and tell us exactly what it is that is objectionable.
>Believe it or not, I can be incredibly dense about that sort of thing.



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