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Re: [at-l] Netiquette

>To Quid: Don't leave - just don't send anything to anyone who posts
personal
>comments into the public domain (Trick me once, and you're the fool, Trick
>me twice, and *I'm* the fool).
>
>Public to Private posts: "You" is used in general in this post. This is not
>a flame, but please stop this, for everyones sake. I write this in public
>not to humiliate, but to educate others who might be new and wondering what
>is going on. This is intended for anyone who may be wondering about this,
>and is offered in the hope that we can facilitate communication - open,
easy
>communication on various topics. No doubt, one's personal communication
with
>list members will suffer if anything and everything is considered fair game
>for the public consumption. Have you ever sent anything to anyone,
>privately? What if this'd been done to you? I'm sure there are reasons, and
>it may be that you can't recognize where the post is coming from (there are
>some *very* computer literate people on the list who would be glad to
help -
>Volunteers, anyone?), or perhaps that you don't know that to do so is
>considered poor form, or it could even be petty irritation that tempts one
>to do so. But it would ease everyones mind, and cause much less
>consternation, if private posts stay private, and only the public ones are
>for all, with everyone agreeing to this basic courtesy. Then we can talk
>about hiking stufffffff<g>...........
>
>Walk Smartly -
>Kurt
>Ga>Me...ASAP (99 or 00) :)
>"In wildness is the preservation of the world" - Thoreau
>

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