<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jul 26, 2006, at 4:06 PM, Russell Wallace wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">On 7/26/06, <B class="gmail_sendername">Samantha Atkins</B> <<A href="mailto:sjatkins@gmail.com">sjatkins@gmail.com</A>> wrote:<DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote"></SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> This looks needlessly officious in part. Non-official people getting<BR>pissed and rounding on the editor is a perfectly reasonable and not<BR>ineffectual action.</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR> I agree as far as that goes, but I also think it is important to come across as calm and reasonable, whatever one's actual emotional state may be; sounding like one is hopping up and down and foaming at the mouth is likely to be counterproductive. (Not saying you were advocating the latter, but it's something that needs to be kept in mind anyway.)<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Damn. I like hopping up and down. It is good exercise and fun to get out of the head now and again. :-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- s</DIV></BODY></HTML>