From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stan Shebs To: Jason Molenda Cc: Bob Manson , overseers@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: cygwin-xfree Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 22:19:00 -0000 Message-ID: <3928C520.87A991BA@shebs.cnchost.com> References: <200005040412.VAA18910@tristam.juniper.net> <20000504131930.B19898@shell17.ba.best.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-q2/msg00257.html Message-ID: <20000521221900.3AEapqrXBDda-qCdzVE_FvMBm5Lm3eweUxxSoOcMSpg@z> Jason Molenda wrote: > > On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 09:12:14PM -0700, Bob Manson wrote: > > > He was no kindly king. He was the Ruler of Evil! Evil, I tell you! > > I quaked in fear whenver he typed! > > It's true, it's all true. Cygnus is actually a training ground > for Evil, Not true! Don't you remember when we got the fan mail sent into info@cygnus, telling us how great GNU was and how we Cygnites were doing God's work? Alas, it wasn't one of the paying customers... > We > should have (or present tense, should) convinced management to pony > up for a full time person and hooked it into the rest of the > company's organization. For those who need to work on this, allow me to recommend the power of the nag. These days, managers are so interrupt-driven that the one-time mail message gets lost in the noise. Nagging serves the dual purposes of regular reminder and effective increase in priority; keeping the issue "paged in", as it were. Once a week is good, daily is usually too much, monthly is too sparse. Be sure the nag includes specific activities with dollars and dates, otherwise it degenerates into whining, which is useless. Stan