Re: reply style (OT) (was Re: Severe Bash Bug w/Arrays)

[(Lnda Wlsh w/faked addr )]

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > Anything else you wanna tell me NEVER/ALWAYS to do?
>
> try ALWAYS being polite.  but i guess that'll NEVER happen.
>
> oh well, thankfully kmail can auto-mute based on sender.
> -mike


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«"Always" "good to prejudge" "everything someone says" based on how 
they interact with one person [sic].»   I am no more likely to use the 
same style with my mom than I would with a convicted killer, would you?

More often than not if you've read my past replies, my replies will be 
colored with the flavor of the note that was written to me.  On a good day,
it will be a toned down version of the flavor, on a less good day, it might
be an intensified version of the tone....   Depends on how many times I 
revise it.   That response was my 5th revision...  If you wanted acerbic,
my first reply would have been much more appropriate (and immature).

I tend to find people who auto-judge all content from a person based on 
responses to annoying people, more than a bit immature given that human 
interactions are highly contextual.  And I mean immature -- in the sense 
that they seem to think human responses are 'robotic or preprogrammed', 
and haven't yet learned that humans are not machines.

It takes dozens of notes from the same person before I begin to 
recognize their pervasive style, and THEN might start remembering their 
name.  But usually I won't remember who wrote something by the time I 
read their next note -- unless they have a pervasive style that I notice 
over time, or have a protracted discussion with them.

Hopefully you will get this, on the off chance that you haven't 
auto-muted yourself due to any posting you've ever made in the past that 
might have offended someone. ;^).


Linda