In article <343297D8.B89 at ix.netcom.com>,
#gondwana <gondwana at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>In response to a plant ID question (accompanied by a long, attached,
>bitmap file), the following responses were made:
>-------------------
>Spam Loser wrote:
>>Can I get in first, ahead of Alan?
And he did, just!
>> ***Please do not post binaries in this newsgroup***
>> You didn't even have the courtesy to compress it into a jpeg, and many
>> of us here had to *pay* to download it, without being asked.
>-------------------
>Mick Collins wrote:
>> And this news group never wants to hear from you again! Go away
>> and learn some manners.
>-------------------
>Why don't we all just put the hapless Juan Carlos (the original post's
>author) up against these newsgroups' collective bullet-pocked walls, and
>shoot him! Maybe we should virtually disembowel him as well?
Sounds good!
>Good heavens. Are we to believe from these reactions that Juan Carlos
>has stayed up nights, plotting his nefarious mischief, in his ruthless,
>bloodthirsty campaign for cyber-global domination? Or (dare I say it?)
>could it be, instead, that the poor man stumbled into an unfamiliar
>medium and made a mistake, a mere inadvertent error? I tremble at
>suggesting even the possibility that this might be the case, lest the
>crowd with the rope, bloodshot eyes and stiff upper lip turn on me as
>well. In fact, the instant I hit the "Send Now" button, I suppose their
>baleful eye will already be upon me. But my hope remains that the
>majority of thoughtful people would agree that this was only an honest
>mistake (I haven't seen Juan Carlos do this before in the various
>newsgroups I scan), and that therefore asterisks, exile, exclamation
>marks, or even the guillotine are unnecessary. Instead, manners and good
>conduct might best be served by a discreet, private email to Juan
>Carlos, letting him know he put his foot in it, and that he should avoid
>doing so in the future if he wishes to be spared the wrath of the
>gleeful disciplinarians in shiny boots and snappy salutes, who so
>vigorously patrol the hallowed halls of usenetdom.
He could have investigated the groups first, made a few enquiries
as to how he should post, what he should post.
But he didn't bother, just pushed all the rubbish all over the
world, in a _large_ number of groups. Some of them possibly
unrelated, but did he care, not on your nelly.
>I had better don my asbestos suit --- the flames approach.
As has been said time and time again, some subscribers _have_ to
pay for every byte which passes down the phone lines, you should
be reserving your compassion for them not some ignorant fellow.
Alan
