-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6/24/10 09:34 , Doug Hughes wrote: > It's more than that. Negative references open you up to lawsuits for > slander or libel (depending if written or spoken). Even if you are > right, you end up in a costly court proceeding to prove it. On the other > hand, there is *always* something nice you can say about somebody > without giving a good reference.
You might want to read "Servant Problem --- Oriental Style" in Arthur C. Clarke's _The View From Serendip_ for an interesting take on this. - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allb...@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allb...@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkwjY4YACgkQIn7hlCsL25XrbgCfUjvy2REgcflysxMsdcIYZzIK LcgAn23oWDz1O6dOrTlU1Urgn1tFe7i4 =5+pM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
