Text 27289, 37 rader
Skriven 2012-03-26 08:39:26 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
  Kommentar till text 27260 av Richard Webb (1:116/901.0)
Ärende: Fidonews Vol 29 No 09 February 27, 2012 Page: 2
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25 Mar 12 23:17, Richard Webb wrote to Roy Witt:

 RW>> Being a fully fledged FLAMER from days of old, I learned to roll
 RW>> with the punches early in my Fidonet history without letting it get
 RW>> to me at all. One can carry on a grudge match for just so long and
 RW>> when the other side desides not to throw in the towel, but gives
 RW>> back as good or better than they get, it's time to call it a draw.

 RW> That's the only thing you can do.  Anything else is
 RW> counterproductive.

Bullwinkle and E. Normus Johnson had many an encounter of flaming, yet
remained friends throughout. It was some of the morons outside of that
echo who took it all too seriously.

 RB>> You never sucked up to Bjorn in the old days, but nowadays you seem
 RB>> to be pretty good buddies.

 RW>> I'm not sucking up to him now, nor would I ever, but I do recognize
 RW>> that there is a time to stand and fight and there is a time to call
 RW>> a truce. If by calling that truce and they respond in a like manner,
 RW>> the war game is over.

 RW> Indeed it is, and the only reasonable approach imho.

Like you've said; that's the only thing you can do and remain produtive.


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  ... find out how far one can go ~ TS Eliot


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