On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 05:48:30PM -0400, Dr Michael Powell, Ph.D. wrote:
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> To the cooker and expert list;
> Are you people so insecure that when I sign my imput and use the
> title that did not come easily, and one that I am proud of, that you
> have to try and belittle me for NO appartent reason. The Dr. means
> that I went through post graduate school with 3.8 average and the
> Ph.D. shows that I am not an MD. My disertation was in Theoryetical
> Physics. So give me a break here, you might learn something.
Dr. Powell, if you got all the way to a fud without learning how to spell,
punctuate, or capitalize, perhaps you shouldn't be so damned proud of it.
Netiquette is derived from North American usage for the very simple reason
that it was North Americans who invented the Internet, invented email, and
invented lists and usenet. It is customary in North America, where, I
believe, most of the list members reside, for non-MDs to use their
credentials only in a professional context. Next time you present a paper
on theoretical physics, feel free to use the Ph.D. (With the
Ph.D. present, the Dr. is redundant, for reasons that are obvious if you
know how to expand both abbreviations.) However, this list is very
practical and about computers, not physics. In this context, your
doctorate is irrelevant. Your use of your alphabet soup, however hard
earned, came across here as pretentious. Linux users are pioneers, and,
like all pioneers, they have little use for pomposity. Perhaps the list
over-reacted in toasting you unmercifully, perhaps not. But you left
yourself open for it, so don't complain that you got it.
As for giving you a break, you ought to have given yourself a break by not
raising the subject again. On the expert list (I cannot address the cooker
list), the matter was over, done with, and forgotten until you posted this
email. Apparently, you missed another lesson of undergraduate work, which
is that if you wish to avoid hazing by upperclassmen, you don't offer them
invitations to do it.
While we are on the subject of etiquette, it is unnecessary to post your
public key in your signature. Either a URL, or posting your key to a key
server and providing its length and fingerprint, are sufficient.
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