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At 11:21 AM 6/10/98 +0100, tdbajus wrote: >Kim, > >Are you sure that you aren't pulling some kind of prank? I've been on >this >list for about a year (!) and there has never been such a bombardment of >silliness. beleive me, I don't have the time.... >Doug Adams said something like this once: > >Human intellegence is a constant but the population is growing.... The real problem is that the population of the internet is growing incredibly fast, and there are so many new people who don't know anything about the traditions and culture of the net or how any of this stuff works. That's ok, everyone has to start somewhere and beginner's mistakes are forgivable. The problem is that there are always some number of people who don't bother to learn about the society they just walked into, and think it's ok to act like a total asshole to people they encounter there. Since all the population is growing, the asshole population is growing too. (unfortunately, assholes are not a constant...) What you see on the list is only a fraction of what I experience behind the scenes, which might explain my general moodiness and bad temper. We are definitely not alone in experiencing this sort of thing. In fact, we have it much better than most, since a list like this generally tends to attract more sophisticated (or at least polite...) users. My girlfriend runs one of the tori amos lists on the net, and you should see the crap she has to put up with. If that's the future, we ain't seen nothin' yet. kim (although, after the various recent public floggings, the number of people screwing up has dropped to 0 in the past few days. Maybe fear is the right approach after all, eh? ;-)