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Wow. I've been reading these posts with a curious eye. I have been chairman
of the Canada VM Users Group for many years, and frequently make presentations
at other mainframe user groups. No heckling of the mainframe, please!<br>
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We rarely, ok, never have had this type of heckling or discipline issues.
Back in the day we typically drew close to 100 people.<br>
No diatribes coming from me on the different computing cultures, mainframe
vs. *nix vs windows, but it comes down<br>
to maturity and common courtesy. It's easy to draw a distinction between
appropriate comments and legitimate questions during a presentation and just
plain immaturity and one upmanship. Shame on those who attempt to derail
a speaker at<br>
any group, let alone a volunteer group. Go somewhere else.<br>
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David Kreuter<br>
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Fraser Campbell wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap=""> I don't know if "heckling" is the right word, but if not there was an
apparent need by some to interrupt in order to say something that really
wasn't within the scope of the topic being presented.
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Heckling is a good word. I haven't been to TLUG in a long time but I do have
vivid recollections of the peanut gallery. I recall a presentation by an RCMP
officer who was constantly getting cut off, most often the heckling got
loudest around the most relevant and interesting parts of the presentation,
the point often getting lost or forgotten.
If you make it to the newtlug meetings, you will find them significantly more
civil, productive and useful.
As for rescuing a presentation I'd think some polite attempts to quiet the
rowdies should work, if not STFU might get through to them.
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