On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 19:39:19 +0530 Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 01:09:15PM +0530, Tahir Hashmi wrote:
Welcome to the brave new world of community interaction over Internet. You've just proven yourself to be a kid who'd never like to learn, or an oldie who can't learn new tricks. If I'm wrong in my conclusion then probably you lack knowledge. Just
From the google guidelines on usenet postings: http://groups.google.com/googlegroups/posting_style.html#human
Never forget that the person on the other side is human.
... Do not attack people if you cannot persuade them with your presentation of the facts. If you are upset at something
I presented the facts straight to the person when he/she first rebutted the warning against disclaimers, including an analysis of how grossly inappropriate the disclaimer was, in a straight-forward and unoffending tone. Instead of trying to understand, the person has been repeatedly flaming people for pointing out his/her misconduct.
or someone, wait until you have had a chance to calm down and
There was quite a long gap between my two posts regarding this. IMHO, the person has been given quite a light treatment on this list. Let this person try such antics out on a high-traffic newsgroup.
Of course, everyone is a newbie sometime. But it is a newbie's obligation to learn and adapt to the culture. RFC 1855 goes to the extent that it says, "read both mailing lists and newsgroups for one to two months before you post anything." Now someone declare that Netiquette is crap AFA posting on this list is concerned and I'll be fine.