A question of manners

[jhetley]

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.

Comments

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is mostly other people's drama. I'm just irritated at the bad manners involved -- I feel that deteriorating manners will kill us long before Bin Laden manages to bring the Great Satan down. Fools and knaves and poltroons everywhere you look.

And the controversy isn't FITB -- it's more like Son of FITB.

Good to hear from you -- not washed out to sea in the Ernesto deluge.

[cinnamonbite.livejournal.com]

It only sprinkled here. I think you got more out of Ernesto than we did.