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Subject:	When is it appropriate to "take it to email" and when isn't it?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Fri, 22 Jun 2001 01:48:54 GMT
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In another thread...in lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tim Courtney writes: > The point of this thread starting was not for you two to start it up again, > please take your differences offline. I would like to dig into this notion a bit more. I think there are situations where it is flatly incorrect to advocate this. I want to stay out of the particular situation that provoked the request and not use it as an example, but I would like to discuss the principle. So I started a new thread. Here is the question to those that seem to advocate "taking it to email" whenever one or more parties to a discussion seem to go out of the bounds of normal discourse: When is this not an appropriate thing to do? Can you, the advocates of that course of action, come up with examples of when it isn't? Why isn't it in those cases? (or, alternatively, are you saying that "taking it to email" is ALWAYS the correct course no matter how bad the social transgression or how one sided it might be?) I think in so answering you will form the basis for a fruitful discussion about norms of behaviour. ++Lar

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		Re: When is it appropriate to "take it to email" and when isn't it?
(...) Ok. (...) :) (...) Well, ask yourself: Does my post, or my argument with this person, needlessly take away from the enjoyment of other users? Is this debate unnecessarily flooding the group? How many people am I currently engaged in argument (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: When is it appropriate to "take it to email" and when isn't it?
"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:GFB6DI.KC7@lugnet.com... (...) of (...) that (...) is (...) how (...) I think it ALWAYS a reasonable course of action. That doesn't necessarily make it correct. But I think anything (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: When is it appropriate to "take it to email" and when isn't it?
(...) Interesting topic. I'd say there are a couple reasons to both keep it online and to take it offline. The reason to keep it online is it's a newsgroup. As long as the topic pertains to the newsgroup, it MAY be of public interest to someone now (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: When is it appropriate to "take it to email" and when isn't it?
Some good discussion but nobody answered this question the way I expected, perhaps because I was a bit too subtle in trying hard to disengage from a particular situation (and Tim, you get marked down because you didn't stay general... :-) ) (...) I (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: When is it appropriate to "take it to email" and when isn't it?
I think we have discussed this before(?). I remember thinking that we are constrained by the attributes assigned to the "partisan" in the final para on this page: (URL) do not think the text I quote answers you question, because I doubt there (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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