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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 15:33:06 -0800
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- From: Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
- Subject: Re: signoff
- Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu
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- From: torkel@SICS.SE
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- > >I was simply indicating that the discussion
- > >of netiquette is not always subtle, as the previous comment had
- > >stated.
- >
- > I don't think Rita said that the discussion of netiquette was subtle,
- > but rather netiquette itself.
- Point taken. I was recalling the previous point from memory.
- However, I don't think netiquette itself is subtle, if the traffic
- is so high people can't participate in it.
-
- I would also say that if a lot of responses have to be as strong as
- they do in order to communicate their connotations as well as their
- denotations, that that subtlety is questionable.
-
- > >I'm glad, in fact. It makes the discussion more lively.
- >
- > So you no longer deplore the absence of civilized rules for the
- > exchanges on the list?
-
- WORDS-L is only VERY secondarily what its name would suggest
- it is about. If it were called BABBLE-L or even TOWER-OF-BABBLE-L,
- the absence of civilised rules would make sense. As it stands, that
- absence seems somewhat silly.
-
- Peter
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