Miata Mailing List: December 1999, Message #41

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EXACTLY!!!!!   Thank you! Where have manners gone?

Keith Barton
Team- High on Endorphins
http://members.home.net/kbarton238/MIATA.HTM
Clayton, NJ.  Yeah, like anyone knows where that is!!


----- Original Message -----
From: Aradia <aradia@teleport.com>
>
> > I realize that some members of the community have asked that commercial
> > posts be kept to a minimum...  but if you really think about it, a lot
of
> > members (who don't have filters for instance, or who pay for connection
time
> > etc. etc. like you mentioned for the commercial posts) also asked that
NMC
> > posts be kept to a minimum... and that ain't happening either.
>
> Unfortunately, a lot of people seem to think that the ethics of commercial
> advertising has to do with pay connections and an abundance of mail. It
> doesn't. Rather, it's based on the fact that the internet was a strictly
> noncommercial medium, where "personal sales" sorts of things were ok in
> the right forum, but "commercial" advertisements were strictly prohibited.
> While the web has been corrupted by commercialism, and a lot of USENET has
> been similarly corrupted, many newsgroups and mailing lists still uphold
> the tradition of banning commercial ads. And some, such as this one, seem
> to do so while making up reasons as to why it's done that way.
>
> It's bad manners. That's all. Nothing to do with NMC or pay connections or
> other such myths. It's just bad manners.
>
> > As far as the 15k of mime post... c'mon be serious... it's not like that
> > never happens... at some point or another A LOT of members have
accidentally
> > sent mime messages to the list... coincidentally the post you mention
had
> > for sale stuff...
>
> Also bad manners. It's netiquette, something that is dying, and something
> few people even know about anymore.
>
>
> -- Sean...
>    Team Voodoo!
>    Team Frou-Vroom =)
>    Team Netiquette
>
>