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From: jeffrey@algor2.algorists.com (Jeffrey Kegler)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Two Points of Netiquette
Message-ID: <1989Sep6.182726.23046@algor2.algorists.com>
Date: 6 Sep 89 18:27:26 GMT
References: <1989Sep6.015314.16485@algor2.algorists.com> <14632@bfmny0.UUCP>
Reply-To: jeffrey@algor2.UUCP (Jeffrey Kegler)
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In article <14632@bfmny0.UUCP> tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes:
>Any editor who reads Usenet and gets offended ought to switch jobs.
>Remember these guys have to read SUBSCRIBER MAIL next to which this
>is a ladies' tea party.

The difference is Usenet is a broadcast medium.  An editor can
control, with subscriber mail, what sees the light of day and what
does not.  I can write the nastiest letter (or send the nastiest
Email) to an editor and he can throw it away (or delete it),
respectively.  A mild attack made publicly is much stronger than a
full-bore flame made privately.
-- 

Jeffrey Kegler, Independent UNIX Consultant, Algorists, Inc.
jeffrey@algor2.ALGORISTS.COM or uunet!algor2!jeffrey
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