At 18:57 09-12-2002 -0600, Marvin Long wrote:

Formal statements of apology or reformed intent should not be required for
mere on-list etiquette offenses, at least not for first or second offenses.
(Off-list offenses that go beyond breaches of etiquette may be quite another
matter, however.)
I must disagree with this. Off-list offenses are a private matter between the sender and the recipient, and therefore it is for the recipient (and only the recipient) to decide how to deal with it (kill-filing, flaming back, filing an abuse report with the offender's ISP). As an off-list offense by definition does not take place on-list, it is not for the listowners or the community as a whole to punish the offender.


(Attempting the same thing over and over again while expecting different
results is the definition of insanity, someone said.)
As someone who gets paid to solve problems that are related to M$ Windows, I can assure you that doing the exact same thing over and over again actually does quite often produce different results. :-)

Guess I just admitted to being insane... :-)


Jeroen "It's a dirty job but someone has to do it" van Baardwijk


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