On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 10:28:30 +0800,
Chong Yu Meng <chongym(a)cymulacrum.net> wrote:
It's funny that you should mention it. The intolerant people you speak
of in the IT industry (or at least, the IT industry in my part of the
world) are normally the first to scream "fascist" (or worse) when
someone tries to tell them to lose weight, dress properly,be more
diplomatic, improve their personal hygiene, etc. But they go ahead and
do the same thing to others on mailing lists.
The ettiquette for tech mailing lists is for the benefit of the people
providing free tech support not (directly) for the people posting questions.
Once it becomes clear someone asking for free help doesn't care about my
time, they aren't getting any more free help.