Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!ncar!umigw!umbio!ibiza!aem From: aem@ibiza.Miami.Edu (a.e.mossberg) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Recommended changes to netiquette Message-ID: <1324@umbio.MIAMI.EDU> Date: 25 Jan 89 16:28:36 GMT References: <1084@ns.UUCP> Sender: netnews@umbio.MIAMI.EDU Reply-To: aem@Mthvax.Miami.Edu (a.e.mossberg) Organization: University of Miami Hertz Lab, Coral Gables, FL Lines: 37 In <1084@ns.UUCP>, wrote: >1.) It is presently recommended that answers to questions be routed via > private posts. > The effect of this is that crummy answers by un-informed users get > posted publicly and the gems (what this whole net is about) get sent > privately. The obvious solution, then, is to have all "un-informed users" send their "crummy answers" by private email. Every large newsgroup should have a "most frequently asked questions" list which can be posted monthly to head off too many repeats. >2.) The defenders of the Net often post BROADCAST messages of the form: aka net.police >You are an (----- subtle insult goes here) for carrying on this discussion >in this group. Please move this discussion to xyzzy group. Hey, *I've* done that! (But I'm just a lowly net.flatfoot) > Net Police should first send private request to their identified > offenders. And unless they enjoy counter-productive efforts, they ought > to avoid the scolding, high handed attitude that seems universal in such > postings. (Such as I am doing right now :-) Quite right. aem a.e.mossberg aem@mthvax.miami.edu MIAVAX::AEM (Span) aem@umiami.BITNET (soon) All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. - Noam Chomsky