Now: SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (was Re: It's legal now)

[pilotlars at yahoo.com (Lars Bruchmann)]

fine, whatever, you won't hear from me again!
--- T Berk <tberk@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Lars Bruchmann wrote:
> > who pissed in your wheatties???  lighten up, i
> guess
> > you are the list nazi, oh, sorry, Nazi.
> <snip>
> 
> Lars.
> 
> I am one of those people he didn't name. If not
> fully, I am certainly 
> borderline, my apologies List.
> 
> But Lars, you have singled yourself out, and I take
> you to task in the 
> game we like to call: 'Whack-a-Mole'. (The point
> being that it's the 
> mole who pops out of his hole that gets whacked.)
> Nothing personal, 
> you're just a handy example.
> 
> But really this is for Everyone. (Think Gary Oldman
> in 'The Professional'.)
> 
> OK,
> 
> - Top Posting. (I could go on but it stands on it's
> own.) This'll become 
> a Holy War so lets just move along, shall we? 
> <http://www.google.com/search?q=netiquette>
> 
> - Not editing/snipping the rest of the thread.
> Besides the laborious trouble it becomes to keep the
> threads tidy there 
> are people who subscribe to the list in Digest mode.
> One email each day 
> with EVERY post smashed together. Lets think about
> what our unedited 
> posts look like to them.
> 
> - One line replies(a) They almost get lost in these
> long, unedited replies.
> 
> - One Line Replies(b) And they sometimes hold very,
> very, little 
> Content. And a lot of the time I'm not even funny.
> 
> - Interpersonal Chattiness and Thread Drift. Like
> the List Nazi said (It 
> was _his_ turn to be the LN), we often get to acting
> like it's a party 
> line, and take the conversation off into LaLa Land.
> Pity the newbie who 
> must often feel like the 1st day at High School and
> doesn't fit in with 
> the Cool Kids and doesn't have the personal &
> institutional memory to 
> get the In-Jokes. And can't get much help with the
> given problem.
> 
> I've been around since the Second Wave (ooh, bad
> analogy) since around 
> 18 months after the list went live. I have seen em
> come and seen em go, 
> sitting here by the Stage Door. Lots of them have
> bitterly vented as 
> they beat feet towards the door that it was too much
> noise to signal and 
> to hell with that.
> 
> We have done better, we can be great again. Every so
> often we need, and 
> get, a hipcheck into the boards. Don't take it
> personal. In fact Don't 
> Respond- that would be a great follow up. Think
> about it awhile. Do the 
> right thing as you see fit, keep your eyes and ears
> open and mouth 
> (fingers) shut and be a good example to the next
> guy.
> 
> 
> TBerk
> It's going to be Hard, but Hard is Good.
> 
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