RE: [wg-c] breaking up (names) is hard to do

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

As patronizing as this is, I'll take whatever points I can from you.
Even if it does make me appear as graceless as thou.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Crocker [mailto:dcrocker@brandenburg.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 12:47 AM
> To: rmeyer@mhsc.com
> Cc: wg-c@dnso.org
> Subject: RE: [wg-c] breaking up (names) is hard to do
>
>
> Roeland,
>
> After reviewing the sequence, I was surprised and chagrined
> to discover
> that you were right and I do apologize.  Really.
>
> No matter how tempting, I should not have responded to silliness and
> ignorance and over-simplification with a personal attack and should,
> instead, have focused on the reasons the comments displayed
> these various
> deficiencies.
>
> Now I realize that this looks like more baiting, but the
> problem is in
> trying to make clear the degree of provocation.  After 15
> years of hearing
> people trivially assert that one or another directory service
> was going to
> solve all our global information problems, it's difficult not
> to get a tad
> frustrated.  And since you have been privy to many
> discussions of that
> topic over the last few years, well, what IS one to think of
> your invoking
> it here?
>
> As to your marketing assessments.  Well, those "various deficiencies"
> appear to know little restraint.
>
> d/
>
>
> At 08:31 PM 8/24/99 , Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> > > Always glad to see the discussion devolve into a personal
> challenge,
> > > especially when its done from ignorance.
> >
> >That's why you issued the challenge, isn't it Dave? It is also very
> >convenient for you to just cut that part out, isn't it? You
> are so VERY
> >good at causing discussion to devolve into personal
> challenges. You even
> >fabricate them yourself, if you need to, and then act like the "oh so
> >innocent" when the challenge is answered.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-wg-c@dnso.org [mailto:owner-wg-c@dnso.org]On
> > > Behalf Of Dave Crocker, Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 9:52 PM
> >
> > >
> > > So, yes, thank you for your expert assessment.
>
>
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