On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 22:01 -0500, jack wallen wrote: > as a top poster i'll add just one thing [...] > to each his or her own i say. > No. You can say "to each community its own" and that's reasonable. But if no one has manners or etiquette, and everyone does "his or her own thing" as you advise, you do not get an open and participative community: you get chaos. Etiquette rules express the preferences and customs of the majority of the community. Following those rules will earn you a good spot in that community, which of course is only important if you care about your reputation in that community. Of course, if you want to come to a free, open, volunteer forum where people spend (cumulative) years of their lives helping others for free, and if you want me to answer any of your questions, you'd better damn well care. Anyone who doesn't care about easing *my* workload is not going to get *my* valuable time spent on their problems. Hence, etiquette. Cheers, -- Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
