Re: comments on your comments....

Marshall Rose <mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us> Thu, 02 March 1995 06:33 UTC

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Subject: Re: comments on your comments....
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From: Marshall Rose <mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us>

> To that end, I now am extremely curious as to just exactly
> how you know which times to listen to 200 people screaming in consensus
> and yet tell them "NO", and how at other times a different group of
> voices speaks to you of consensus so compellingly????    Why and how
> are they different?  When does consensus rule and when does it not?

concensus always rule.  however, there's this thing called a sense of smell.

from time to time i find myself in situations where my position is
counter to the initial concensus.  many times, concensus changes.

what you fail to understand is that when i say "no", i remind people
that there is an appeal process, etc..

think about it.

/mtr