Re: Netiquette Guidelines

From: "Donald L McDaniel" <donmcdaniel2005@xxxxxxxxx>

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| That is your take. Since there is no "LAW" which governs the way people
| post to the Usenet, noone can say "this is the way you do it, and it must
| always be done this way." After all, a "convention" only has as much force
| as people let it have. If someone decides not to follow the convention, it
| has no force over him. Until the Government decides to make laws
| controlling speech on the Internet, that is all the force a convention will
| have on anyone who decides not to follow it.
|
| Many others think differntly. Many think that the Usenet is a wilderness
| where anything may be said at any time. This comes from our American habit
| of upholding the 1st Amendment to the Constitution.
|
| However, anyone who posts to the Usenet for any length of time comes to the
| conclusion that politeness is better than having rights if they want to
| communicate with others.
|
| --
| Donald L McDaniel
| Please reply to the original thread,
| so that the thread may be kept intact.
| ==============================
|

After *years" of being called a Top Posting turd and other such nasty titles, I started to
use FidoLook in conjunction with OE6 to bottom post.

I find it amazing that they can deal with enmasse spammers like "R o n a l d L. G r o s s
i" but if you
Top Post you are the scum of the Earth.

I too pointed out in the RFC -- "This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any
kind."
It didn't help.

I wonder what OE7 will look like ??
--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm


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