List etiquette question

[Chris Hewitt]

On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 04:00, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 22:01 -0500, jack wallen wrote:
> > as a top poster i'll add just one thing [...]
> > to each his or her own i say.
> > 
> 
> No. You can say "to each community its own" and that's reasonable. But
> if no one has manners or etiquette, and everyone does "his or her own
> thing" as you advise, you do not get an open and participative
> community: you get chaos.

If you are on a mailing list, then it is polite to follow its
conventions. Here in the UK we drive on the left, guess which side of
the road I drove on when I visited the USA?

Chris