Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!lsheldon From: lsheldon@cup.portal.com (Laurence Larry Sheldon) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: A Network Tragedy Message-ID: <22469@cup.portal.com> Date: 23 Sep 89 23:50:31 GMT Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 13 I have noticed a couple of things that I have come to the conclusion are in each case tragedies and a sad commentary on the state of our world. One of these has bothered me for some time, but I have sort of grown a callus on the sore-spot, so it bothers me less now--that is the tendency of a number of people to abuse others because of what they say, because of their poor spelling, grammar, syntax or typing skill, and because of the site from which they posted. The other is still rubbing sore--the large number of sad people who begin a posting "I am new to the {net|group|board|world of computers} so please be gentle, but . . ."