[MLB-WIRELESS] Tolerance & Gain

[Rabbit]

Surely its not that hard to point out an error in someone's posting with out
sounding like a condescending prick.
I subscribe to this group because I want to learn about wireless networking.
While one or two flames gives me a chuckle from time to time, it gets a bit
tedious when it goes on relentlessly in a game of one up manshit.
(this isn't aimed at any one person, just my 2.2 cents (gst inc))

----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Sanders" <cas at taz.net.au>
To: "Grant McHerron" <grant at taoceti.com.au>
Cc: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Tolerance & Gain


> On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 07:18:50AM +1100, Grant McHerron wrote:
> > You know, it would seem from all the CR^P being sent around this
> > mailing list lately that some of the folks out here have forgotten
> > something rather interesting about the world of WIRELESS SYSTEMS...
> >
> > With zero tolerance to allow for differences/shifts/angles/etc, the
> > gain often drops to zero
>
> actually, it's low tolerance for misleading/false/just-plain-wrong
> information being propagated.  to those who know how mail on the
> internet works, some of the proposed "fixes" to non-problems are as
> wrong as stating that "2 + 2 = 49.273".  not just slightly wrong, not
> just off-by-one, but completely wrong.  when you see people who are
> belligerently wrong AND, worse, spreading that incorrect information
> then there is an *obligation* to correct the mistake before it spreads
> too far and infects too many minds.
>
> ignoring that obligation means that uncorrected & unchallenged
> falsehoods become "common knowledge".
>
> > Think about it before blasting people for being stupid, etc.


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