[80563] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: On the-record - another "off-topic" post
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Nash)
Tue May 3 19:56:42 2005
Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 16:56:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Nash <billn@billn.net>
To: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0505031804290.18574-100000@cirrus.av8.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Dean Anderson wrote:
> Basically, when the discussion degenerates to "dean is a troll", on a
> forum like this, it means they've run out of ideas, but don't want to
> concede anything, and are looking to divert attention to something else.
> And of course, one can't make someone (on a forum like this, anyway)
> concede anything, and they wouldn't do so willingly.
Pot calling kettle, pot calling kettle, come in, kettle.
As long as we're explaining fun words:
If neither party is willing to back down from their point of view, *right
or wrong*, that's called an impasse.
Since nothing any part is saying is changing anyone's mind, agree to
disagree and take it offlist.
- billn
