[Coco] Appologies

[Roger Taylor]

At 03:47 PM 3/26/2010, you wrote:

>At 09:43 AM 3/26/2010, you wrote:

>>Jason, are you married? If not, you'll probably stay that way. If 

>>you are, how long? If you take this same attitude you won't be 

>>married much longer. Just because you disagree with the majority 

>>(or they disagree with you) doesn't necessarily make you right or 

>>wrong, it just means you disagree. Sometimes you just need to 

>>"agree to disagree" and let it go. Looks to me like that's the 

>>point that was reached. I just skimmed through most of those posts. 

>>I saw valid points on both sides -- just no consensus. I find that 

>>often happens when programmers talk. It's worse than car guys 

>>claiming how their brand is best and the rest are junk! Most of the 

>>time that's a bit tongue-in-cheek, but programmers get SERIOUS!! ;>

>>So don't let a disagreement ruin the CoCo experience or the list. 

>>There will always be people who disagree with you. You'll learn to 

>>tell who you can have a heated debate with and who you can't. Lots 

>>of personalities everywhere -- you learn some and respectfully 

>>decline to reply to their remarks (a polite way of saying ignore 

>>them -- some of them will be ignoring you too, by the way!). 

>>Sometimes you do have to "bite your tongue" when replying.

>>People forget that even an old fashioned mail list like this is 

>>really the same as talking in a room full of people with similar 

>>interests but flew in from all over the world. Sort of like the 

>>hospitality room at a CoCoFest. The internet insulates a lot, but 

>>over a day or two everyone in the "room" knows EXACTLY what was 

>>said, unlike a physical room -- there's even a transcript (not that 

>>it's always used...)! So there's a delay in "hearing", but the 

>>hearing is more exact. There are no "tones"  or body language to go 

>>along with the hearing, so that can make it more difficult. We all 

>>have different levels of writing too, and it's not always easy to 

>>convey precisely what you mean in words. I'm pretty sure you know 

>>all this, but we ALL need a reminder sometimes!

>

>

>It also seems like what you have said above, which is very true, has 

>to be reinterated in most forums at least every 6 months or so.  I 

>guess we were due.  :)

>

>--

>~ Roger Taylor



I guess I was due for a typo as well.  Gosh-darnit, I obviously meant 
"reiterated".


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~ Roger Taylor