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- From: erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp)
- Newsgroups: ba.singles
- Subject: Re: Marginal People (was Re: Circle Jerks (was Re: Oxymorons, )
- Message-ID: <77578@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 14:02:16 GMT
- References: <27941@sybase.sybase.com> <1993Jan15.064342.15858@netcom.com> <28388@sybase.sybase.com>
- Organization: Bleeding Edge Technologies - 'Sliding Down The Razor Blade Of Life...'
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- In article <28388@sybase.sybase.com> tim@sybase.com (Tim Wood) writes:
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- >Part of communicating effectively is to anticipate what your reader/listener
- >might infer from what you say. You don't want them to make inaccurate
- >inferences. The reader's reaction is, believe it or don't, partly the
- >writer's responsibility.
-
- Only reasonable inferences. Besides, that's what the feedback channel is for.
- Communication is, believe it or not, a two-way street. The responsibility
- of the sender is to make a reasonable attempt to be clear and non-ambiguous,
- and the responsibility of the receiver is to communicate to the sender that
- 'X' is the message that was received, thereby making the feedback that much
- more effective.
- --
- Ed Carp, N7EKG erc@apple.com 801/538-0177
-
- "It is your resistance to 'what is' that causes your suffering." -- Buddha
-