A good email from JohnBartley to the PersonalTelco MailingList. I will work on turning into a formal howto in some of the mythical spare time I hear is floating around :-)

Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 09:19:26 -0700 (PDT)<<BR>>
From: John Bartley <johnbartley3@yahoo.com><<BR>>
Reply-To: ptp@lists.spack.org<<BR>>
To: ptp@lists.spack.org<<BR>>
Subject: [ptp] Dealing with the press, and a tech question

A suggestion in dealing with the press

Know what points you want to get across before you
start the call. 

If the reporter asks about X, and you odn;t want to
talk about it, answer with a boring sentence about X
and then talk about Y.  Talk about what you want to
talk, not what the reporter wants.

Try to use a theme with resonance to things Americans
hold dear; plucky pioneer spirit, the little guy,
inventiveness, ingenuity, bla bla bla. Americans are
our best when we improvise in the midst of chaos. That
kinda stuff.

Cast yourself as expanding connectivity so folks can
participate in the net DESPITE the dot-bomb by doing
the opposite of what blew up the dot-bomb; back to
basics networking using off the shelf parts with no
IPOs and no debt.

You may wish to note the volunteers of PTP/PDXWireless
pay for every bit of Internet access we distribute.


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