[kictanet] IBM is dead!

[Walubengo J]

@Kivuva



Since I know Yawe's style, I had indeed not taking the title too 
seriously and again I do know something about IBM actually being a top 5
 software (not even hardware) companies and so there's no way they could
 be dead.



But following the reactions, I had now to search and get the original 
post and sure enough the content was indeed +ve for IBM - but as 
@PKukubo  said, some people would take this subject line and 
tweet/fb/run with it with unforseen repercussions.



Moral of the story - some Listers have over time developed more 
*authority* or *followers* to use the tweeter analogy than others.  But 
with that comes the responsibility that such Listers must weigh the  
impact of their posts more than others - because many a times their 
posts are more likely to be taken as gospel truth and perhaps quoted in 
other forums where the readers there do not know that @Yawe was posting 
with a pinch of salt....



walu.

nb: I also tweaked his subject line to match his original content
--- On Wed, 4/18/12, Kivuva <Kivuva at transworldafrica.com> wrote:

From: Kivuva <Kivuva at transworldafrica.com>
Subject: Re: [kictanet] IBM is dead!
To: jwalu at yahoo.com
Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2012, 2:41 PM

As we approve and condemn the phantom caller, we should also learn to
take what Robert says with a little pinch of salt

On 18/04/2012, peres_were at yahoo.co.uk <peres_were at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Yawe
>
> I really do not see what is negative about IBM launching its cloud service.
> I am guessing the title subject of your email was meant to 'catch' the
> kictanet audience for a good discourse.
>
> The said 'respected member of this community' should have given his views
> online for a good debate rather than try to dictate to you how you should
> write your posts.
>
> More oil to your elbows I say! Keep on writing!
>
> Peres
> Sent from my BlackBerry®
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk>
> Sender: kictanet-bounces+peres_were=yahoo.co.uk at lists.kictanet.or.ke
> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 06:49:58
> To: Peres Were<peres_were at yahoo.co.uk>
> Reply-To: robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk>
> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] IBM is dead!
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