From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@gettcomm.com)
Date: Tue May 18 2004 - 15:16:51 GMT-3
At 2:00 PM -0400 5/18/04, Chris Larson wrote:
>What is grounds for being banned from the list? I certainly hope that does
>not happen. What exactly is it? The forwarded e-mail all in caps ( I wasn't
>going to re-write it), or the off topic post?
>
>I understand it was a bad idea to send it to this list and wish I could
>retract it but it is too late now.
>
>My apologies.
>
>Chris
Looking back in the archives, you have made some useful posts, so
maybe there's room for some slack. It's one thing to have a Friday
Funny or such that's still vaguely on networking, or to ask a
non-Cisco question on the Professional list, but a totally
non-networking post on CCIElab is really pushing things.
I suppose I was particularly annoyed by this as not just a chain
letter, but with absolutely no author or group attribution.
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@gettcomm.com>
>To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 1:48 PM
>Subject: Re: FW: gasoline, WAY OT - but it may be of importance to you
>
>
>> At 1:09 PM -0400 5/18/04, Chris Larson wrote:
>> >This post is way off topic to any list I belong to but I thought it
>> >may be of importance to others and it requires a large number of
>> >participants so I am going to forward it. I was glad to get it and
>> >to be able to participate so I though you might too. If not ignore
>> >it and I am sorry to have wasted the time/bandwidth.
>> >
>> >At the very least It will be an interesting look at the
>> >effectiveness of "flash crowds" so to speak or maybe "flash
>> >political movement" would be a better description.
>>
>> Let's put this in a CCIE context. Asking the proctor for information
>> is going to help only if you demonstrate you have thought through the
>> problem. Proctors being people, they are also going to respond
>> better if not yelled at.
>>
>> Starting in reverse order, the economic protest that was described is
>> in all caps -- the EMAIL EQUIVALENT OF YELLING.
>>
>> Next, we have phrases like "It has been calculated" and "May 19 has
>> been declared," but with no supporting data. Who calculated what?
>> What methods were used? No information.
>>
>> Who declared May 19 a day of protest? I like to know who I'm
>> supporting with my voice and my vote.
>>
>> This is probably grounds to be banned from the list, although the
>> final decision will be that of the list owner. I hope yelling about
>> Evil Oil Companies was worth losing support for your CCIE quest.
>>
>> [Long, all-caps, much white space lecture snipped]
>>
>> Howard Berkowitz
>> Member, Groupstudy Moderator Team
>>
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