On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 09:07 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
And I'm not only asking you, I'd prefer if everyone could try to not put more oil onto the fire, even when you don't agree. We know each others opinions now, we don't have to iterate over it again and again.
Agreed. I'll try to lead by example and just not respond. So far, I've been the opposite type of example.
Sometimes a good technique to prevent a big fire is to cut out the stuff that is not adding anything to the heart of the discussion. Even if you do not agree with some of the surrounding statements, you do not have to answer each statement/each paragraph to prove your point.
You may have noticed I cut a whole part of your mail out just to make the mail friendly again. I don't want to reply to blame/reblame because that is exactly what leads to reaction. Just answer the nice parts, and people think you are nice too.
Right ? You think I'm nice, don't you ? :)
-- dag wieers, dag@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]