arnold (12/09/82)
I disagree. (a) When someone apologizes to the net, the can fend off future complaints from people who haven't seen the abuse yet. (b) People who misuse the net are generally relatively new and don't know the rules. All a moritorium on apoligies will do is create yet another rule for them to break, thus causing the poor new individual (we were all new once, remember) to get two sets of flames; one for the first abuse and one for apologizing for it. (c) Since most seasoned veterans of the net send their complaints to the misuser, the apology may be the only public mention that an error has occured, which both reinforces the courtesy rule that was violated in old timers and warns newcomers to avoid it. Ken
mjl (12/11/82)
Speaking as one who is new to the net (this site has just started recieving things via uucp), would someone(s?) care to send me a brief summary (via Mail) of network news etiquette, so I can avoid having to make any apologies upon which you might be tempted to declare a moratorium?? By the way, if this is an inappropriate request to send to net.followup, I apologize! |-} Mail to decvax!wivax!linus!wjh12!mjl or to decvax!genradbolton!wjh12!mjl