On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 09:28 +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 01:13:06AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 19:13 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > > > On Mon, 09 Jan 2006, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: > > > > Miles Bader wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > > I, for one, am far more interested in the message than the way which > > > the message is conveyed. > > > > The way the message is conveyed *is* part of the message. > > Yes. When somebody puts on a smart suit and tells you, in 'polite' and [snip] > being nice to somebody even though you don't like them, that doesn't > make you a better person, it just makes you a liar.
I said it was *part* of the message. Not the whole message. Even geeks are social creatures. Thus, even though we can and should try, we can't totally divorce the message from the medium. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA "Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure." Anthony Eden, British prime minister -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]