On Oct 15, 2013, at 8:53 AM, Alex DiMarco <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Robert Skinner <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> You would have hated the 90s then.
> 
> Interesting time that was, no particular hate though for that period.. 
> Now the 80's on the other hand :*) 

It was only the music that sucked in the 80s… Oh, and the clothing / hair 
styles, and the politics, and …  :-)
> Though annoying at times, these displays on mailing lists have also sparked 
> some great technology projects too. Those around in the early BSD days recall 
> such episodes. Not that I am promoting or encouraging such behavior.
> 
> There is no doubt great technology has emerged from conflict; verbal and 
> otherwise.
>  
> I think I may be an optimist with a belief that if we choose to interpret 
> intentions in a positive way even when they are communicated otherwise, we 
> can potentially do even greater things... maybe I am choosing to be naive...  
> but then, that is the title of this thread....
> You will always have “that guy”, at a bar now and then, but as long as it’s 
> not a bar full of that personality.
> 
> I think unfortunately all of us have had the privilege of being "that guy" at 
> the bar - I know I have a few times even without the Guinness or Scotch 
> flowing  8*]

So what excuse do I have, given that I was stone sober?   (In France at the 
time, but still… sober.)

Jim


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