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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:40:21 -0800
- Sender: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
- From: Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
- Subject: Re: signoff
- Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu
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- From: EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
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- > 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
- >
- > This is a fact of e-life, that's one's postings must be overly clear.
-
- Both statements are quite valid, and seem to me to support
- the idea that netiquette is not necessarily subtle.
-
- >>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
-
- Fair enough. I never claimed to be anything but a clown.
- That doesn't obviate the arguement that the name WORDS-L is misleading.
- A list which really did restrict itself to dealing with words,
- would find a much different kind of participation on my part.
- As long as WORDS-L isn't interested in following civilised rules,
- then it shouldn't expect my participation (or anybody else's for
- that matter) to be anything else than uncivilised.
-
- Peter
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