Re: [Paddlewise] spnonsonman 2006

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 11:52:50AM -0400, James Farrelly wrote:
> Before the internet was what we know as the internet today scientists  
> were using it to share info. Someone noticed how impolite the  
> communications could be and did a study. They concluded that with as  
> little as a year of on line communications people become more rude. 

<chuckle> Yes, I know, I was there back in .ARPA days. The study you
may be referring to is:

	R-3283-NSF/RC
	TOWARD AN ETHICS AND ETIQUETTE FOR ELECTRONIC MAIL
	Norman Z. Shapiro, Robert H. Anderson
	July 1985

	Prepared for the National Science Foundation

	Published by
	The Rand Corporation
	1700 Main Street
	P.O. Box 2138
	Santa Monica, CA  90406-2138

I've got a text version here, but it appears to be on the web at:

	http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R3283/index.html


I'm still occasionally rude (I do *not* suffer fools gladly, and that
includes msyelf when I have my own lapses) but some of my perhaps
more-toasty responses over the past few decades have been pre-empted
by this -- which I've kept taped to my monitor(s) for a long long time:

	Never say anything in an electronic message that you wouldn't want
	appearing, and attributed to you, in tomorrow morning's front-page
	headline in the New York Times.
		--- Colonel David Russell, former head
		of DARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office

---Rsk

p.s. We were also using the 'net for advanced purposes like games,
nekkid pictures and jokes.  It's just that those were rarely mentioned
in NFS grant applications.
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