X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,9c46bf1057de06a5 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: edias@cc.curtin.edu.au (Shanaka Dias) Subject: Re: Complaint about (unintentional?) abuse of usenet by your dept. (fwd) Date: 1997/10/09 Message-ID: <61g4b0$kje$1@alpha10.curtin.edu.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 278719305 References: X-Complaints-To: usenet@alpha10.curtin.edu.au X-Trace: alpha10.curtin.edu.au 876319904 21102 (None) 134.7.108.33 Organization: Curtin University of Technology Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Patrick Craig wrote: >>From: "fwiese" >>To: >>Subject: Complaint about (unintentional?) abuse of usenet by your dept. [-----8<--[snip]-----] >>Kind regards, >>Mic Barendsz Seems like a perfectly reasonable and polite email to me, so why are you getting so touchy about it? > I take it that absolutely none of you have ever been first >time usenet posters? Or have ever made a mistake in your lives? I take it that you have never been a regular newsgroup reader or lurker that has had their newsgroup regularly spammed by the same group? If your students make a mistake perhaps you could encourage them to apologise. This is after all an international newsgroup and we have been getting these "mistakes" for a very long time, with no explanation. >Occasionally they will make a mistake, however, and that's human nature. >The so-called "abuse" _is_ unintentional, and it upsets me to think that >you people would try to take it any other way. What other way way could we take it when we weren't even given the courtesy of an explanation? As I understand it this has been going on for at least a year if not longer. >If you're looking to vent anger, why don't you take it to professional >counseling? A more constructive response to this problem would have been >to offer to give us a hand with showing our students netiquette standards. Not knowing what your students were supposed to be doing until recently that would have been a bit difficult. Why do you think people were trying to get in touch with the head lecturer? >I want to thank you all for making the world a more bitter place. And I would like to thank you for showing us the bitter state of the assistant teachers at Wright University. I'm sure your students have learnt just how easy it is to embarrass yourself in a world-wide forum. You have set a fine example. Next time, perhaps before venting YOUR anger you would like to examine the situation a little closer. hmmmm since you are so quick to upset and don't seem to have much understanding of newsgroups, I wonder if that is why your students haven't learnt any netiquette? Just a thought. Shanaka