From: Mark Hubbart <discord@...>
Date: 2004-06-15T05:36:33+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] [ANN] celsoft.com/Battery 0.1.1


On Jun 14, 2004, at 11:48 AM, Sean O'Dell wrote:

> I absolutely could not accept less than what I implemented myself.  
> Diplomacy
> is tough to have when you simply don't have the room to compromise on 
> some
> things.

I think I probably wasn't clear what I meant by diplomacy. I didn't 
mean your software should be diplomatic; it shouldn't. It should do 
exactly what you want it to, and you don't even need *me* telling you 
that. I was suggesting that perhaps your replies were somewhat 
incendiary, and could easily have been considered rude by some people.

You could have said that alphabetic ordering was not flexible enough 
for you, instead you kept insisting that it was arbitrary, a criticism 
which some people found rude. According to my dictionary[1], arbitrary 
equates to either rashness, randomness, or carelessness.

By diplomacy, I meant "We all have good ideas, but I prefer mine", 
rather than "I came up with my idea because John Doe's idea was 
flawed". Which is how your statements might be read.

--Mark

[1] arbitrary: adj. not bound by rules: despotic, absolute: capricious: 
arising from accident rather than from rule. -- Chambers 20th Century 
Dictionary