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Re: [OM] Our two Georges of the Net Jungle!

Subject: Re: [OM] Our two Georges of the Net Jungle!
From: "George M. Anderson" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 09:29:33 -0700

Gary Schloss wrote:
> 
> 
> George Anderson wrote:
> 
> >I'd like to chime in briefly. This is meant basically as a comment on
> >Gary's netiquette remark. [...]  I'd like to say that I don't know who
> >created this lore called 'netiquette' or where it is written down.
> 
> Oh, I am so glad you asked :-). 


Somehow I just **knew** you would be! :>)


 The netiquette was conceived in the
> internet newsgroups, and most mailing lists adopted it.  To learn about
> netiquette, pls visit the following newsgroup:
> 
> news://news.announce.newusers
> 
> and read all the posts on netiquette by Ms. Emily Postnews, the internet
> equivalent of Ms. Manners.  Additional info. is available at:
> 
> news://news.newusers.questions
> 
> and
> 
> news://news.answers
> 
> To summarize, netiquette requires that private communications remain
> private.  Everyone's privacy must be respected, and this includes people
> whom we don't like or disagree with.
> 
> E-mail is a very impersonal medium, and it's very tempting to let the
> discourse slide to the lowest common denominator -- a level I call
> the Net Jungle.  Let us all try to keep the Zoo out of Zuiko :-)
> 
> (Hey, the last sentence is pretty neat, huh? :-) :-))


Pretty cool!  Except then our lenses phonetically would be "EEEKO".  So,
maybe we are meant to act like animals, lest we sound like Jamie Lee
Curtis in a bad horror flick?


George


> 
> Cheers,
> 
> /Gary Schloss.
> Studio City, California, USA
> schloss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>

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