Re: Politeness in posting

From: Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Date: Sun May 20 2001 - 06:29:51 MDT


Lee Corbin wrote:
>
> Well, I don't deny those advantages, and it's obvious that these
> strategies often smooth troubled waters to everyone's benefit.
> But there is also something too evasive about the lack of candor
> this entails.

Different strokes for different folks. As societies have
temporal and spatial variations in the amount of cooperation
and tone of communication (NY vs SF), so have different fora.

We here are extremely polite by Usenet standards. (And even by
rowdy bar room standards).



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