Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/07/09/11:16:13
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Fact is, I dislike when people don't give a damn for existing common
> rules which have turned out to work fine for all other people.
You are ascribing malintent where either ignorance or disagreement may
be present. You are assuming they don't give a damn instead of the more
probable "don't understand the issues or difference" or the probable "I
disagree with your viewpoint regarding the issues you seem to have with
this". I can also say as easily that format=flowed and even HTML email
work fine for many people too.
> Successful communication needs rules.
No, not at all. Successful comminication requires effort on both parts
of the speaker and listener. Stifling rules stilfe communication. Rules
or requirements should not be forced rather guidelines and conventions
should merely be stressed - not shoved down other's throats.
> If somebody doesn't apply to these rules, which really aren't hard to
> find or follow, nobody is forced to read his or her posting, right?
> Nobody is forced to read my postings either. That's ok.
Nobody's trying to force you to read. You shouldn't try to force them to
write in a particular style. In the end communication, at least civil
communication and I'd say any communication that is, in the long term,
successsful, always requires *compromise* on both parties. Your stated
opinion, Corina, is uncompromising.
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