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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:11:58 EST
- Sender: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
- From: EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
- Subject: Re: signoff
- Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu
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- Posted on 24 Jan 1993 at 18:32:19 by Peter Montgomery
- >However, I don't think netiquette itself is subtle, if the traffic
- >is so high people can't participate in it.
-
- People on this list make their own decisions about how to handle the
- high traffic. A large nb. of people read all the postings. Some
- people delete certain ones. This doesn't prevent anyone from
- participating.
-
- >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.
-
- This is a fact of e-life, that's one's postings must be overly clear.
-
- >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.
-
- So does your presence.
-
- Karen
-