"LO" == Lamar Owen lowen@pari.edu

LO> Not exactly my point, but close. What I got aggravated LO> about was something that Ill call the 'I got Slashdot LO> first post' syndrome. It seemed that some people raced to LO> see who could be first the 'answer' the question when they LO> didn't really know the answer and got angry when corrected LO> to current behavior. And they would do it more than once, LO> even after being corrected more than once.

Back in the day, you'd see similar requests for help on Usenet. The standard operating procedure was to reply to the poster, who was expected to post a summary in response to his or her original post. Now we have mailing lists, and the old ``netiquette'' has gone right out the window.

Claire