OT: Abbreviations (was Re: Making a better textbook (was Re: The Deitel book))

[Robin Munn]

On Fri, 08 Nov 2002 at 00:49 GMT, Chris Gonnerman
<chris.gonnerman at newcenturycomputers.net> wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "ACalcium" <acalcium at aol.com>
> 
> 
>> >> Why can u teach this in CS2 when they learn
>> >
>> >The word is "you", not "u".
>> >
>> >You may not know this yet, but the rest of the Internet is *nothing*
>> >like AOL. We prefer complete English words here, and "cute"
>> 
>> [much deleted]
>> Just concentrate and follow the thread, Rob.
> 
> I have to say, I'm with Rob.  How much work would two letters
> cost you?

Especially when the two letters we're talking about are the two letters
on the end of my *name*. My name is Robin, not Rob. Which brings me to a
second point of Internet etiquette: don't trim attributions unless you
are also trimming *all* quoted text written by that person. Trimming
attributions had two effects in this case: first, it makes this thread
look like ACalcium is responding to him/herself (and who's this Rob?).
Second, it resulted in Chris also using my name incorrectly, since there
was no more "Robin Munn wrote:" to point out what my name *really* is.

Finally, did you ever think about the fact that Rob is a man's name
exclusively, while Robin can be a man's name or a woman's name? No, you
didn't think about that. You lucked out this time -- I am a man, so you
didn't accidentally call me by a wrong-gender name. But be *careful*
about that next time! Calling someone by a name that isn't theirs and
isn't even the same gender as theirs is even more impolite than your
first offense.

O.K., end of netiquette flame. Nothing to see here folks, move along,
preferably to a thread that's actually ON-topic...

P.S. Chris, no need to apologize: you had no way of knowing that Rob
isn't actually my name.

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Robin Munn <rmunn at pobox.com>
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