Folks,
There were too many flame wars on this list
in the last month. Can we go over some basic
etiquettes?
1. Don't write anything you wouldn't say
in person, face to face.
2. And even if you are the sort of person who
would say things like that, remember that
people can't hear your tone of voice or see
your facial expressions. Subtleties and
sarcasm don't carry well over the net.
3. And my favorite: if you read something
that makes you jump up and down and
go "AAAARGH" and start pounding on
your keyboard, instead of dashing off
a reply, go take a pee instead, you'll
often feel different when you're done.
Cheers,
Au
At 05:08 PM 5/23/00 -0700, Michael R. Clements wrote:
>Sorry for the bandwidth, but I thought the response should to the
>the same address list as the question.
>
>> "Grantz, Sherry" wrote:
>> >
>> > OK, so the way I read it, Michael Clements is calling me a "self-righteous
>> > volunteer" and a "jerk". Am I missing anything here?
>>
>> Perhaps you are missing something. I just re-read my message and
>> didn't find any name calling. I described a general type of
>> person (the self-righteous volunteer), observed some negative and
>> some positive (does useful work nobody else wants to do)
>> characteristics of that type, with the implicit suggestion that
>> you might be such a type. I'm not the only one who observed the
>> fact that the tone of your message matched the description, so
>> while I believe the association is correct, I admit that it is
>> based only on circumstantial evidence.
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