jmsellens@watmath.UUCP (John M Sellens) (02/25/85)
Please don't post your answers to trivia questions to the net. I'm sure that
we're all bored silly reading the words "Fractured Fairy Tales" over and
over and over. I don't want to just ignore them all, because one of them
might have another question, or an interesting side point.
My understanding of accepted nettiquet is that the poster of a question should
be willing to *summarize* mailed replies to the net. This will usually consist
of one (and only one) article containg the answer - usually with a subject
marked "answer" or "spoiler". (Summarize does not mean a list of all the
mail you got.)
So, please, before you post your reply to the net, consider these points.
- four hundred other people are poised with their finger over the 'f' key
at that very moment.
- nobody likes reading the same thing four hundred times.
- the answer will be posted eventually. *You* will know that you knew the
right answer all along and can be proud of how smart you are. The rest
of the world *doesn't care* how smart you are - you won't be impressing
us in the least. (And besides, if you were wrong, you won't get thousands
of messages telling you what a stupid jerk you are.)
John
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