[NTLUG:Discuss] Press Release

[Allen Flick]

Kendall Clark wrote:

> >Allen Flick <allenflick at home.com> writes:
> >    <http://www.intervoice-brite.com/press/2000/p0500.html>
> >  Check out the above URL.  It's a press release from where I work.

I'll now add,  we're starting to use Linux in one of our products.


> It's not appropriate because there are dozens and dozens of *Linux*
> press releases *every day* now. Would this list be very usable if all
> of us forwarded a URL to a press release without any comment on how it
> could possibly be relevant to people on this list? I don't think so.

Here's a good point.  My apologies that I didn't mention it had to do with
using Linux in one of our products.  Therein I did not think.  Guess I'm
too damn naive to constantly think of how the bad guys might act.


> If you had taken an additional 30 seconds to explain how your
> company's press release was relevant to folks on this list, then it
> would have been more appropriate. It's not so much what *you* did it's
> more a matter of setting a policy that everyone can live with; if
> everyone did this, the list would become unusable.

But, if you'd taken 30 seconds to check out the URL, you'd see how it
had to do with NTLUG.  Guess you just thought I was one of the bad
guys.  Sad, most people think that way now days.  I mean most people
think everyone else is bad until shown good.  Kinda like the guy the
police arrest is guilty until proven innocent.  Yes, very sad indeed.


> Btw, if you had wanted to make a case for why a URL to your company's
> press release *is* appropriate on this list, you could have done that,
> rather than hiding behind a sarcastic reply.

This said from one of the most sarcastic on this list.  And, to prove
me wrong, he'll more than likely remove me from the list.  Some can
handle power, some can't.

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