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Subject:Re: C-I-V-I-L-I-T-Y From:Wolf Lahti <wduby -at- TECHCENTER -dot- PACCAR -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 7 Dec 1995 08:17:58 -0800
Michael J. Maloney made several common-sense points and said:
>The point here is that we are the leaders. We set the standards. We are
>supposed to represent the top ranks of technical communication.
>My recommendation is to keep our house in order. I know anarchy exists many
>places in this electronic world, but we can keep our area of responsibility
>free of it. If there is _any_ group which should champion the cause of
>appropriate electronic communication and civility it is us.
Mike, Mike, Mike-- If you continue spouting such sensible things, people
aren't going to listen to you at all.
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"I hate quotations."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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