Gary Schloss wrote:
>
>
> George Anderson wrote:
>
> >I'd like to chime in briefly. This is meant basically as a comment on
> >Gary's netiquette remark. [...] I'd like to say that I don't know who
> >created this lore called 'netiquette' or where it is written down.
>
> Oh, I am so glad you asked :-).
Somehow I just **knew** you would be! :>)
The netiquette was conceived in the
> internet newsgroups, and most mailing lists adopted it. To learn about
> netiquette, pls visit the following newsgroup:
>
> news://news.announce.newusers
>
> and read all the posts on netiquette by Ms. Emily Postnews, the internet
> equivalent of Ms. Manners. Additional info. is available at:
>
> news://news.newusers.questions
>
> and
>
> news://news.answers
>
> To summarize, netiquette requires that private communications remain
> private. Everyone's privacy must be respected, and this includes people
> whom we don't like or disagree with.
>
> E-mail is a very impersonal medium, and it's very tempting to let the
> discourse slide to the lowest common denominator -- a level I call
> the Net Jungle. Let us all try to keep the Zoo out of Zuiko :-)
>
> (Hey, the last sentence is pretty neat, huh? :-) :-))
Pretty cool! Except then our lenses phonetically would be "EEEKO". So,
maybe we are meant to act like animals, lest we sound like Jamie Lee
Curtis in a bad horror flick?
George
>
> Cheers,
>
> /Gary Schloss.
> Studio City, California, USA
> schloss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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