[H-GEN] Netiquette

[cla]

Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 12:48:59 +1000
From: Anthony Towns <aj at azure.humbug.org.au>
>
> Hello world,
>
> Some tips:
>
>   Read what you're about to post four or five times before you hit
>   the send button.
<...generally good advice snipped...>
>
> The basic rules are "think twice, post once", and have consideration for
> your reader.
>
> If you don't know all the above already, read the articles in
> news.announce.newusers. Hell, read them again even if you do.

i was happy to read this advice.  everyone should use whatever
judgement they have developed whenever they open their mouth or post.
sometimes i think there must be some simple set of rules that could in
principle be applied universally ... i think that is away off yet.

two tangentially related questions follow:

i finally bothered to mimencode -u an entry in an email digest i
receive, and was amazed at how much mime and html packaging was tacked
on to no perceptible advantage.

do the commerical/ms mailers not have a simple option to recognise a
message size/content below which they shouldn't abuse a nice simple
ascii communication channel?

also, can anyone recommend an easy to follow analysis of the
'fairness' of varying approaches to network congestion?


thanks,
-
C.
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Subject: divergent metaphors

"a bad craftsman blames his tools."

- software tools are a whole dif'rent kettle of fish.  software should
be better.  blame your vendor.

"neither a borrower nor a lender be."

- there's risk in opening any interface.  perception of risk is based
on an implicit acceptance of non deterministic causality.  information
transfer can achieve very low overheads.

"measure twice, cut once."

- example only -