On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 12:23:53PM -0000, Curt wrote: > On 2021-08-11, <tomas@tuxteam.de> <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 07:25:40AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > [...] > > > >> This is a mailing list, one I've been subbed to for at least a decade. It > >> has rules, often violated without realizing it. You come roaring in here > > > > Agreed. Less roaring would be... nicer. For all of us :-) > > My only objection is that the geometry, as they say in French, of who > does and doesn't adhere to any given rule is totally variable. Ah, géométrie variable :-) Yes, you are definitely right, especially wrt to a world-wide mailing list with as many subscribers as this. > I recall > vividly (and selectively, but memory can be like that) a quite long > thread in which many of our venerable and often infuriatingly redundant > dinosaurs participated concerning the Oberon mail client [...] Yes, I dimly remember. > What's good for the goose must be good for the gander, or it's no good > at all. It's difficult to set hard-and-fast rules. And soft rules do change over time. Generous amounts of Postel's principle seem to be in order -- or put another way: try to not assume malice. Try hard. Most of the time "chastising", "warning" or "killfiling" would seem too harsh to me. A friendly reminder, perhaps. I try to make a rule for me that only when someone is insulting someone else a limit is reached. And that I could be wrong in my perception, so I'm strongly dependent on others to correct that. What seems important to me is that, as cultural heterogeneity here seems to be high [1], Postel's principle applies even more. Cheers - t
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