<div dir="ltr">I agree that Pieri has been caustic and confrontational. I remember my first bizarre encounter with him, when I had suggested it might be useful for us to get our hands on a system with UEFI and actually test it before an InstallFest to see whether there were any issues we needed to be aware of, and Pieri launched into a lengthy diatribe where he repeatedly declared that that was an absolutely horrible idea. <br><br>I never could figure out why he was so adamantly opposed to the concept of testing something in advance.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Bill Ricker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bill.n1vux@gmail.com" target="_blank">bill.n1vux@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Bill Horne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bill@horne.net" target="_blank">bill@horne.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">If someone (in fact, anyone) is adding remarks to a public forum
which might discredit or embarrass his/her employer, an obvious
solution is available. </blockquote></div><br></span><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Yes ... I tagged a twitter abuser's employer in my reply and got a **very** quick apology ! <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br>(As it happened, the abuse was on-topic to the employer's line of business, so i was a potential customer, and it was a media property so they actually monitor their twitter replies ... )<br></div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">As per my other note, AFAIK, that is not the case here ... where the insensitive individuals work usually isn't obvious, they're mostly posting from personal email id's . </div><span class=""><br>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr">Bill Ricker<br><a href="mailto:bill.n1vux@gmail.com" target="_blank">bill.n1vux@gmail.com</a><div><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux</a> <br></div></div></div>
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