On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 6:03 PM, Bill Kontos vkontogpls@gmail.com wrote:
Indeed. I'm from the slack generation,
ah so you've read their terms and conditions, then? and seen these news articles:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/07/the-great-british-brexit-... https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/26/robert-mercer-breitbart-war...
not too used to mailing lists. I didn't realize I was breaking the flow.
it's a different world. slack is designed to self-promote, to entrap and entice you by "encouraging" - forcing - interaction with glitz and glamour. likewise github: it's NOT about teamwork, it's about encouraging you to promote yourself above others, to compete for attention and glory... all the while getting information that can be sold about you whilst lying to you that they don't do anything of the sort.
so in short: mailing lists are group communication minus the glamour, entrapment and promotion, but also without hard rules on formatting. so people need to set their own rules, and that's how netiquette formed.
l.