From: jgl7@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Andrew T. Kim)
Subject: Nettiquette (Re: TO: S. W. KIM (Re: To Jung))
Reply-To: jgl7@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Andrew T. Kim)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:57:14 GMT

In article <Dec.23.14.24.42.1992.16638@gandalf.rutgers.edu> junglee@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Jung S. Lee) writes:
>yshan@screamer.ece.ncsu.edu (Youn-Sik Han (Snyder)) writes:
>
>
>>In article <1992Dec22.084624.27094@sbcs.sunysb.edu>,
>>swkim@csws17.ic.sunysb.edu () writes:
>
>>> Subject: To Jung
>>> ....
>
>>Again, sorry, s.c.k netters, please disregard this message, if you are not
>>the Mr. S. W. KIM.
>
>
>>You must be the full-time netter of this 'soc.culture.korean'. 
>>Full-time netter of this s.c.k should do like you?
>
>>Anyway, I'm so unhappy about that kind of a personal ABUSE of net.
>>It is a shame of 'soc.culture.korean' newsgroup.
>	 ^^^^^
>
>What shame! soc.culture.korean pig for ever.
> 
>>Han
>
>Hey, what's wrong with you gal and guy? This is where any pig can come
>and talk about whatever individual pig thinks and feels. There is no
>such thing as what we should talk and not. There can be flames like
>one I posted. If you give one right of freedom of speech, you give it
>all.  You don't censor any( If I want to say Eat shit, I can say
>that).  If the pig I flamed couldn't handle what I said, perhaps the
>pig should learn how to deal with it to live in a beautiful pig's
>society where every pig has a big nose to sniff others.
>
>
>At last but not the least, 
>
>    From a pig from heaven,
>
>
>		Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
>
>					To every pig on the earth.
>
>Jung the pig.


Sheesh.  Here we go again.

Every once so often, we have some loud mouths screaming about Freedom of
speech.  Pigs, that's something new.

Mr. Jung S Lee, with all due respect to your love of Freedom of Speech, I
should say that you are just hiding behind the gospel of Freedom of Speech
to abuse the Net.  It is true you can say whatever you want to on the Net
and nobody can do anything about it.  What I am talking about is a matter
of Decency.  If this USENET is such wonderful thing, we should show at
least some respect.  There are certain protocols and codes that you are
encouraged to go by.  Personal messages, such as name-calling as witnessed
above, should be done through e-mail.  Anybody who has questions about
USENET ettiquettes can refer to news.announce.newusers group.  

It is not a law, so we can have different opinions about what the suitable
topics are for a group.  IMO, the psychobabbles of Hyunsuk Seung is not so
much out of place in this group, since he loosely touches many faucets of
Korean cultures.  Using posts for what e-mail would suffice, however, is a
clear violation of Network Usage.  If you differ, we can discuss it over
here.  But if you think that you are free from criticism and advice from
other netters, you are only kidding yourself.

USENET is like other society you are living in.  Instead of enforcement of
law, people are expected to behave based on honor codes.  On official
USENET guide, it states "USENET is privilege, not right".  Don't confuse
the Freedom of Speech to be the ticket to be rude.

Andy Kim
Newsgroups: soc.culture.korean