On Nov 20, 2008, at 10:38 AM, Eric Yost wrote:
>>I don't want or need to read, "Well done, team," that sort of thing.It's not a pattern in my life. Usually long silences between inundations.Once I got a "well done team" in regard to a project I had entirely done myself. Was tempted to type THERE IS NO "TEAM" IN "I" and reply to all senders, but forbore it.
A friend of mine was on a software engineering team of one; he was tempted to send himself memos, boss to team members.
It could be that men deal one-on-one from generic relational confidence, whereas women "reply all" to avoid the appearance of indiscretion or to avoid creating a false sense of intimacy for their interlocutor.
Plausible. We need a grant, possibly an Institute. David Ritchie, reading theses in Portland, Oregon ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html