Hi all,
In general, I might agree that posting a note that was sent to
me privately to a public list would be bad 'Netiquette. But, as
a list-admin, there are occasions where posting such a message to
the list does serve a useful purpose. When I find myself needing
to do something similar on my list, if I haven't asked permission
from the sender, I will do what janet did and add some type of
disclaimer.
I also think it is bad 'Netiquette to quote the entire text of
a message that you are replying to on a mailing list. I think
that using anything but plain text in an e-mail is bad 'Neti-
quette. I think that "forgetting" to change the "Subject: " head-
er when a reply is discussing a different subject is bad 'Neti-
quette. There are more but would it do any good to complain? ;-)
BTW, I am not of the opinion that janet's use of all lower
case letters (not just the i) does *not* show a lack of self-es-
teem. IMHO, it is an interesting posting-style that gives her a
unique personality. I do something similar when I format my mes-
sages distinctly, use a tag-line, and put some kind of ASCII-art
in my signature (which, BTW, is bad 'Netiquette on my part --
"signatures" are supposed to be no more than four lines long).
;-)
And, all of this is -- again -- just my long-winded way of
saying that if you're going to send a note to a list-administra-
tor and you don't want the message posted to the list, you should
include a line in your message that indicates that you would ap-
preciate it if your message wasn't posted to the list or any oth-
er public forums.
All this just IMHO as I try to remember how many Internet mail
list subscribers it takes to change a light bulb?
Bill--
...who would give his right arm to be ambidextrous.
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