I wondered that myself, because I know sometimes things come through as a double post. Also when you are new to some list, or a strange one like a "Linux" list then you might not acutely know if your message went through. My impression is the guy was just a friendly innocent guy who needed some real help. To blast him right away for "netiquette" issues seems a bit hyper to me. It probably would have been better to just let it go unless there was more evidence that it was an actual problem. My opinion is that it's poor netiquette to always be telling others what proper netiquette is. Different people have different thoughts opinions and styles and so forth. There is just isn't any point in immediately net picking unless something is actually a severe problem which is bothering the great majority of readers on the list. Like beauty, netiquette is in the eye of the Netition. In other words a Netlord should wait until he/she receives a significant number of complaints about an issue from the Netsurfs.

Ronnie T Livingston wrote:

Ive been getting multiple email from this list from the beginning of the
summer so I couldn't tell if he posted once or three times =)

-Ronnie


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