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From: steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: BZZZZZT!
Keywords: netiquette
Message-ID: <659@taumet.com>
Date: 6 Apr 91 17:24:16 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Taumetric Corporation, San Diego
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It seems on its way to becoming the rule to preface corrections with
    BZZZZZT! You're wrong!
    BONG! Thanks for playing, anyway.
    You IDIOT, even my blind and deaf Irish Setter knows better than THAT!
or some such.

I've noticed even some of the usually polite netters have begun resorting
to these unnecessary catcalls.

This is a plea to remember that:
    No one is always right all the time.
    Politeness costs nothing.
    Rudeness hurts us all.

Those who enjoy humiliating others could perhaps start their own newsgroup
and flail away.
-- 

Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com