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Subject:Re: Slamming Coda -- two closing thoughts From:"Walker, Arlen P" <Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 28 Mar 1997 09:23:28 -0500
If someone
posts something that's "wrong", do NOT immediately
post a correction. Read the rest of the mail from the
list, wait a couple of hours, then, if no other posts
with essentially the same content have appeared,
THEN post your correction.
I read this, and the first thought that came into my head is that it can
only work if someone on the list doesn't follow this suggestion. Think
about it: if everyone follows that suggestion, all it succeeds in doing is
postponing the batch of correcting messages by a couple of hours. ;{>}
OK, so who gets to choose the person who fires first?
Have fun,
Arlen
Chief Managing Director In Charge, Department of Redundancy Department
DNRC 224
Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- Com
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