Re: Electrolysis

From: PowerWorker (npower_at_innerCOAL&OILlodge.com)
Date: 01/31/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 19:09:54 -0800

Hatunen wrote:
...
>> Don't worry about it, Alan. Those kinds of comments usually come
...
>> It's a convention, nothing more. Nor, despite what you'll no doubt
>> hear stridently brayed here, is there an established "netiquette"
...
> Conventions exist for a reason and are not to be scoffed at. You
When conventions exist simply to gratify those that impose them, then they
should be scoffed at. Nay! *Must* be scoffed at! You impose "convention"
simply because you think you can. You can't! And I don't recall anyone
giving you either the right or authority to do so.

> don't issue a long and loud belch at the dinner table with your
> boss for a reason, but the ettiquette not to do it is jsut a
"Etiquette" depends on your culture. In some, that's considered a culinary
compliment. By sheer numbers of practitioners, you're wish to impose such a
"belching" convention on others puts you on the losing end of that one as
well. So, again, your "convention" is simply something to gratify those
that impose them.

> convention. Conventions make things flow easier. Usenet is
No they don't. They simply channel the flow. Ease of flow has nothing to
do with it. Nor does your approval (or disapproval) mean anything.

> anarchy pure and simple and of course you can do whatever you
> damn well please, adn unless you defame someone or defraud
Thank you. I shall.

> someone you won't suffer. But anarchy is anarchy, and it makes
> life a bit difficult, so conventions are generally instituted,
Anarchy is only anarchy to those that feel the innate need to control the
actions of others. From the anarchist's POV, those that seek to impose
their control are the problem, not the solution. Which, by definition,
makes you, sir, the problem.

> usaully by a sort of consensus. Not just bottom posting, but
Consensus is taken by all participants, not just a select few. Those that
wish to impose their own "conventions" conveniently ignore those that don't
wish to join. How quaint--kinda like the Taliban and their "conventions"
for women! I've been there. I've heard the arguments. I've been in those
discussions. There was never a "consensus" in the matter before us. You're
simply making up "facts" to bolster a losing cause.

> trimming quotes and responding at appropriate places in the post,
> makes it far easier for one's readers to follow one's logic.
Now here we agree. But that's not a genuflection to consensus. It's simple
logic and convenience.

Now go back to your sandbox and let the adults discuss things obviously over
your head...

Dusty 

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