Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/26

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Subject: [Leica] are you all behaving?
From: Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)
Date: Thu Aug 26 08:53:03 2004
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Brian:

Will you have time for a drink/snack with any Boston LUGgers?

Jim


Brian Reid wrote:
> I'm in the midst of a cross-country drive with my youngest child who 
> will be starting college in Boston next week. Historically, whenever I'm 
> away from the LUG, you all start fighting and being rude to each other. 
> I'm not really able to read it right now to see if you're behaving, but 
> I'm going to guess that the Usual Suspects are misbehaving and ask them 
> to please calm down and shut up.
> 
> Never forget the Cardinal Rule of email communities: if you insult 
> someone online, it won't change anyone's mind about that person but it 
> may well change someone's minds about you. If you think that someone is 
> being egregious, just let them be egregious. They'll condemn themselves 
> far more efficiently than you could condemn them.
> 
> Brian
> LUG Saloonkeeper
> eastbound on I-80 just west of Cleveland.


In reply to: Message from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] are you all behaving?)