Those guidelines look reasonable.

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I would point out that the concept of being polite is one that generally falls apart in a written-only format, especially in a non-real-time environment.??

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One generally forgotten aspect of being a "Good Citizen" is that respect is a two-way street.? I would note that far too many people today cannot seem to comprehend the difference between disagreeing with their ideas and "attacking" them personally.

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Today's Groups are largely populated by people who were not even born yet when global public email networks first faced these same issues.? Global email networks significantly preceded the so-called World Wide Web.?? One of the earliest was FidoNet.? FidoNet faced the same issues that we wrestle with today and came up with two rules that did a better job than most of the more recent attempts:

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The FidoNet judicial philosophy can be summed up in two rules:

     1) Thou shalt not excessively annoy others.

     2) Thou shalt not be too easily annoyed.