A question of manners

Been a bunch of nonsense back and forth, both in private SFWA internet discussion groups and in a (non-LJ) blog, about copying and posting stuff in a public place -- that blog -- that was spoken (written) in a private group*.

As far as I'm concerned, this represented a _major_ violation of good manners. Totally boorish. The person took "private" conversations -- ignore questions of Internet security, of which there remains damned little -- and published them. Private conversations in which he did not even take part. As far as I can recall or discover, the person had _never_ taken part in conversations in that group. A lurker.

Two, three hundred years ago, the person would have been challenged to about a dozen duels.

*SFWA members only, password required.

Sometimes one slips through

Okay, I'm reading along all innocent and relaxed, and I come across this fossil in the story. A spiral trilobite. Ten million years old.

Clunk.

Guess the author, editor, and copy-editor all need a refresher course.

As the man said, "God is in the details."