[nylug-talk] [Offtopic] OpenSolaris meeting 6pm Wednesday, February 20th

Zach Stern zach at wordrockets.com
Mon Feb 18 15:17:26 EST 2008


Mm. Lets have another battle over netiquette.
Because that's really worth our time

Here's what happens. Somebody makes some kind of netiquette faux pas, then
we all argue about it, I make a few obnoxious comments, possibly getting a 1
month suspension, and then we all go back to posting however the hell we
want and nobody changes anything.

See how I'm still top posting here despite the fact that we've had at least
2-3 arguments about how it since I've joined this mailing list?

Let's discuss something worthwhile.



On 2/18/08, Chris Knadle <Chris.Knadle at coredump.us> wrote:
>
> On Monday 18 February 2008, Zach Stern wrote:
> > Well it is relevant when backed up with actual fact, like the wide
> > availibility of bandwith. He wasn't just saying, hey its 2008!
>
>    The bandwidth part of the argument also didn't have much relevance,
> either.
> Even with a 28k modem I could download messages from NYLUG, at a rate of a
> few seconds per message.  The size difference in the message between a
> paragraph of prior context and the full prior message isn't vast.
>
>    It's purely a matter of netiquette.
>
>    -- Chris
>
> --
>
> Chris Knadle
> Chris.Knadle at coredump.us
>
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