| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 29 Aug 2000 at 09:06:08 |
| Subject: | Re: Netiquette |
John Lord said,
> Hi Neil
>>> Well, if you don't like it, cant you set your mail prog to strip sigs then
>>> you wont have to read it :)
>> No, but I can set the eGroups server to strip the entire post, saving
>> everyone the trouble of reading it!
> Yes I am quite aware that you can do that to me, but why?
Behaving in breach of accepted etiquette is rude. Insisting on doing it
when others ask you to stop is dcownright obnoxious behaviour. If you
came into my home and went ot light a cigarette, I'd ask you not to.
would you then go ahead and light up, saying that if I don't like it I
should deal with it myself?
I can assure that the response would be somewhat unpleasant.
>> Four lines is an accepted standard of netiquette. Deliberately flouting
>> this is the net equivalent of farting in company. Don't do it.
> Ok, if you are saying you could strip my posts, can I just ask why posts from
> others on this list with more than 4 lines, (some up to 11) don't get the
> same public responce from you? After all If my sig is too long, then so are
> theirs, but I dont see them get the warning?
Did I say this only applied to you? note that I didn't complain about
you sig (and not because I wasn't here when it first came up). I reacted
to your refusal to have any consideration for others.
> And surely netiquette also extends to the recent spate of wildly off topic
> post concerning GCSE's, this has nothing to do with this list, but look how
> that has gone on.
that's totally irrelevant, two wrongs don't make a right and all that.
But if people continue to post to an off-topic thread after being
asked to stop, they *are* banned from posting for a while.
Neil
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