Re: New Era Ahead (Nasty Email Reply)

[dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)]

MattyQ (matticue@corplink.com.au) wrote:

> David Bromage wrote in message ...
> >True, but it's still bad form. That's why I have a rider on my web site
> >in which I reserve the right to make public and ridicule any abusive email
> >I receive. That gets around the problem of bad netiquette. :)

> So GOD can ridicule but us peons can't? Bit of a double standard, isn't it?
> Who ever heard of "netiquette" anyway?

:netiquette: /net'ee-ket/ or /net'i-ket/ [portmanteau from "network
   etiquette"] n. The conventions of politeness recognized on {USENET}.

This is in my 1992 vintage jargon file, and has been around much longer
than that.

Cheers
David