RE: INFO: Reminder of List Netiquette

" take more care in phrasing our questions so that=20
they are less ambiguous to others." ?????

I'd like to know how I could have phrased my question more carefully and
less ambiguously than I did.

I saw a site that apparently had no HTML, yet I knew it had to have HTML =
or
the browser couldn't have rendered it.  So I posted the URL and asked =
"how
did they do that"?

I do wish the list managers and list guides wouldn't keep trying to make
this MY FAULT!  This is the second attempt to do that.  This fiasco is =
the
fault of OTHER list members.  It's simply an attempt by the HWG to =
deflect
what they think might be legal action on the part of the owner of the =
site
in question and make me the culpable defendant.  I'm not buying it.  I =
did
nothing that hasn't been done on this list at least a hundred times =
before
and is perfectly within the rules.=20

For the record, the owner of the site in question is relaxed, since I =
posted
his words, and is unlikely to sue anyone, unless damage continues.


Cheers
Mike Kear
Windsor, NSW, Australia
AFP Webworks
http://afpwebworks.com




-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org] =
On
Behalf Of Christopher Higgs
Sent: Wednesday, 21 May 2003 12:13 PM
To: hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
Subject: INFO: Reminder of List Netiquette

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G'Day all,

Rarely are such reminders of List Netiquette necessary, so for the =
majority=20
of members on this list, please bear with me.

To the small-minded minority:

HTML has many purposes apart from building public web sites.  It is used =
in=20
the creation of Intranets, VPNs and other private sites, and even used =
as=20
an intermediate medium from which it is compiled into other forms (eg. =
CHM=20
files, HTMLHelp, and other technical writing programs).  Websites=20
themselves, even though public, may have other functions specific to=20
organisations.

It is therefore a good idea to answer the question that is asked in the=20
context that it is asked, and not to use posts as a vehicle for =
expressing=20
unrelated personal views that are therefore irrelevant to the question
asked.

The "horror" at a password script that was not a password script and=20
unrelated to the original question is a case in point.  The IWA/HWG =
mailing=20
lists should not be used as a basis for damaging the websites and=20
reputation of others.  Such activities are a breach of the conditions of =

use for these lists:

   http://www.hwg.org/lists/cover.html

To the remainder of members, thank you for your patience.  I guess the=20
lesson we can learn is to take more care in phrasing our questions so =
that=20
they are less ambiguous to others.

Chris Higgs
List Guide
HWG-Techniques

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