On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 04:00, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > 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. If you are on a mailing list, then it is polite to follow its conventions. Here in the UK we drive on the left, guess which side of the road I drove on when I visited the USA? Chris
