On May 18, 2005, at 5:15 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 05:52 PM Wednesday 5/18/2005, Nick Arnett wrote:On Wed, 18 May 2005 18:45:15 -0400, Erik Reuter wrote > * Julia Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I've been asked to ask you to tone it down on personal attacks > > on-list. > > > > If you make many more personal attacks on-list, the probability of > > your being placed on moderation will be non-zero.
Posting a private e-mail to the public list, which I'm fairly certain was done without Julia's permission, is lousy netiquette.
On a couple of other lists I am a member of, doing that or its converse (forwarding an on-list message off-list) is grounds for immediate dismissal, regardless of who does it or how long they have been there or how well liked they are.
I had just discussed this kind of abuse in an off-list exchange with a manager of a list that I am on, in which I echoed Ronn!'s experience: there are plenty of lists on which the forwarding of off-list messages without permission is grounds for banning, if not heavy moderation.
BUT: before we rush to judgment, I don't think we've heard from either Julia or Erik as to whether she'd given him permission. Also, the list's Etiquette Guidelines <http://www.mccmedia.com/brin-l/etiquette.htm> do not specifically address this issue, and not everyone has had Ronn!'s experience with other lists that observe it. It may simply be a matter of learning, like not top-posting.
Just to be clear: I only mentioned the rules of that other list to show that some places it is justifiably considered more than just "bad netiquette" to do that I am not advocating any change in the list guidelines.
Dave
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