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- From: lancelot@spock.uucp (Thor Lancelot Simon)
- Subject: Re: BSDI/USL Lawsuit -- More Bad News for Human Beings...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.215708.13365@choate.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:57:08 GMT
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- In article <18102@umd5.umd.edu> mark@roissy.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz) writes:
- >>] I think it would be a great idea if USL people showed up.
- >>] This way, we could tell them, in person, what we think.
- >>] That's what USENIX is all about!
- >>
- >>Look, I'm not fond of what USL is doing *as* *a* *corporate* *body*, but
- >>I like a lot of the things the folks in the trenches have done. Do you
- >>seriously want to be abused because of the corporate policies of *your*
- >>employer?
- >
- >It _is_ an opportunity to talk to USL people. It should _not_ be looked
- >at as an occasion to yell and scream at them.
- >
- >If 50 people a day come to their booth and say "The USL suit against BSDI
- >is making you look _really_ _bad_", that will get noticed. If you staff
- >a booth at a trade show, its your _job_ to tell your employer when people
- >are saying stuff like that.
- >
- >But resist the urge to say "You're all a bunch of assholes!!!" The people
- >you talk to didn't cause this and don't deserve to take the heat for it.
- >
- >Be nice and you might get your point across. Be nasty and you just turn
- >them against you.
-
- It is a shame nobody thought to organize pickets. That might be the right
- blend of nice and nasty for the occasion.
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- *Thor Simon * Okay, just a little pin-prick...There'll be no more-*
- *tls@panix.COM * Aieeeeaaaugh!-but you may feel a little _sick_. *
- *tls@spock.UUCP * ---Pink Floyd *
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