At 12:26 30-08-96 +0000, you wrote: >Finally, I find, in general, AMERICAN listowners to be too liberal >to abusers of such a kind. Those .com sources are the ones who'll, >in the future, make the academic world PAY for their megalomaniac >network abuses. Well, as a Dutch listowner I ought to know something about tolerance. The way my country is getting headlines concerning drug tolerance and lately even childporn tolerance is not doing a great job for my chauvinism. My domain kun.nl could be seen as an American .EDU domain, yet I am webmaster for a certain company and in another mailer I have a .sig containing that URL. I usually write a .sig so I don't have to write it every time I write a mail, I write it once, and it gets appended to the end of every mail. Great invention. What I mean is when I write a mail I am not consciously sending that .sig. If I'd send to your list I'd be abusing in your eyes, you'd warn me, I'd apologise, a month later the same would happen. You will not change that on your own. Unless a person writes something very interesting on my list I don't bother to check their URL in their .sig, and if it's a FOR FREE SOFTWARE CHECK http://... it gets ignored completely. >Those who commented my poster objected to "netiquette" but did not >read, in the text, the threat to academic list owners. PERHAPS, it >is high time to have a forum for european list managers. Well if your action would be the action of an academic list owner in general, I'd rather not be associated with that group. Grab a beer and relax for a couple of days, works for me. And no, Dutch DON'T tolerate child porn ANYWHERE. Note: my personal Hfl 0,02. I am not representing European listowners or Dutch ppl in any way. Michel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michel Weenink [log in to unmask] Pontanusstraat 38 [log in to unmask] 6524 HG Nijmegen Sometimes I wonder why Murphy's law +31 (0)24 3607665 never applies to Murphy's law (Jumbo, 22-3-'96) Student Cognitive Science http://www.psych.kun.nl/~weenink/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------