Sometime Today, vulcan assembled some asciibets to say:
> just a little modification. you might like to use advice only if the
> advisor uses the right polite/requesting presentation. No?
>
> some of the linuxers are using very terse type of lines like
>
> "control your line limit."
[snip the others]
> and mostly they are sending mails specially to write such one-liners, or
> include these lines at the top of their mails.
The point being that these topics have been covered at length in earlier
posts and are also part of the welcome message sent to everyone joining
the lug. Everyone is supposed to read this message and abide by it. Off
hand violations will be forgiven - we are all human - but we will state
the one liner, though mostly as part of the entire reply. Replying to a
query does take priority over posting these messages.
You have a point in noting that replying with only the one liner is
uncalled for and in such cases may be better off replying directly to the
sender.
> may be it might be effective on 4 year old children. but some of us
> 20-30-40 year guys may find it offending.
Please also note that some of us are in fact 4 year old children - or at
least think we are. On a virtual terminal, age is non-existent; you are
what your mails make you out to be.
> people should not use such terse statements at the onset of their
> letter, and if they can't contain themselves from sending such advices,
> please send by direct mail to the person.
The point in sending it on the group is that others who may not have been
aware of the guidelines may thus forth be aware.
> please don't mock anybody in full public view.
> please don't highlight somebody mistake to others.
Accepted. It would be better to address the problem rather than the
person who (possibly inadvertently) caused it. In some cases though, this
may not be possible, for instance, the person involved persists with the
same nagging habit inspite of several requests by other members of the
group. This clearly shows that that particular person does not respect
the others and there is no reason for anyone to listen to such persons.
We also appreciate your attempt at checking your spelling when in doubt.
Philip
--
Today's scientific question is: What in the world is electricity?
And where does it go after it leaves the toaster?
-- Dave Barry, "What is Electricity?"
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