From phm@a2e.de  Fri Aug 17 09:21:21 2001
From: phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:21:21 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Patents] [meta] (pas d'objet)
In-Reply-To: <3B7CCF71.F34D62E0@hotmail.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108171017340.2175-100000@mulix.oas.a2e.de>

> Sorry, but I am a Frenchman, and I was shocked !

Another observation:

In general, diverting the subject to discussions about manners of the
active participants is a well-known tactics of those who want to prevent
discussions.

You may also have noticed that whenever a meta-discussion comes up, Greg
is a very active participant, if not he himself brought it up in the
first place.

>From these experiences, repeated in many other forums with other subject
matters, I draw my own netiquette recommendation:  never talk about
netiquette, manners or the like, unless you have made a lot of
constructive contributions to the forum and are credible as a person with
a vested interest in the success of the forum!

--
Hartmut Pilch                                           http://phm.ffii.org/
Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation	      http://swpat.ffii.org/
85000 signatures against software patents         http://www.noepatents.org/



