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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 11:01:00 EST
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- From: "Bruce E. Nevin" <bnevin@CCB.BBN.COM>
- Subject: different kind of fog
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- [From: Bruce Nevin (Tue 921222 10:44:42)]
-
- (Rick, Marten) --
-
- Gee, I wish you guys wouldn't huff and puff so much, it gets the
- windows all fogged up.
-
- And I hope you will keep on including elementary restatements of
- what may seem obvious to you, at the risk even of seeming
- patronizing in a 1-1 conversation. First, when the private
- conversation is reposted for the rest of us (as I hope such
- conversations generally always shall be) what is obvious to you
- may be essential tutorial to less practiced folks like me. There
- are a lot of different levels of expertise present, in a lot of
- fields that intersect variously with PCT. Secondly, and I doubt
- this process is unique to me, I find that the effort to state
- clearly what seemed obvious often discloses things that were not
- obvious. I think this has to do with participating in a
- revolution with respect to fundamentals.
-
- It seems to me that taking offense generally causes as much
- trouble as giving it. Must be a social-PCT way of putting that.
-
- I am extremely grateful for the forebearance and tact with which
- my efforts at participating here have been met. Others have
- commented on this quality, which is very rare indeed in the world
- of electronic mail fora. Bill attributes it to a change in
- perspective brought about in each of us by understanding the
- nature of control. The jury is obviously out on that. But
- whatever the reasons for it, I hope we continue always so.
-
- Bruce
- bn@bbn.com
-