Etiquette (was Re: left justify)

[Jeff Harrison]

--- Fairlight <fairlite at fairlite.com> wrote:
[snip]
> There's a large difference between instigation and
> reaction.  Don't give
> someone something negative to react to, you won't
> get a negative reaction
> unless the reacting party is pretty unreasonable. 
[snip]

You seem to be saying that you have no control over
your actions.  If P then Q.  Is that it?

[snip]
> 
> There's the chain of logic that says that by
> coddling people in their own
> rudeness from point #1, you only enable them and
> propogate the problem; if
> you cut it short (even if you have to be rude in
> doing so to drive home the
> point), you eventually stop #1 from appearing,
> thereby stopping #2 from
> ever becoming an issue, since it's a reaction to #1
> in the first place.
> 
> That's my thinking on it, anyway.
>
I don't think their rudeness justifies your rudeness.
 
[snip] 
> 
> It's -always- been my take that if someone is too
> timid to venture forth a
> post because of what other people might think, their
> problems extend far
> beyond the immediate technical issues at hand.  Our
> ultra-PC society has
> eroded away the thick skins we developed after a few
> thousand years of
> developing them.  Nowadays, uttering a simple, "No,"
> is considered abusive,
> offensive, rude, and possibly obscene. [snip]

I agree that in many ways our society has gone
overboard with PC.  However, this is not what I am
talking about.  It is simple manners.  If you were in
a room full of colleagues you would not say many of
the things that you say on this forum.
 
I guess I'm just asking that we think before we post. 
I would have no problem if you just ignored the poster
that did not provide enough information.

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com

Author of JHExport and JHImport.  The easiest and
fastest ways to generate code for filePro exports and imports.

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