[ale] net etiquette question for ALE message board

[Jim Kinney]

You should hear the crashing sounds when I turned off the list :-)
It's not as dramatic a noise when the list falls down but it's like the xkcd
of making the band kids stumble in the music store by making the music skip
a beat. Ha!
On Oct 15, 2011 10:18 AM, "Michael B. Trausch" <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 05:03:34PM -0400, Brian Mathis wrote:
> > Also, people are not computers and a mailing list is just people
> > talking.  It's barely worth discussing such things as it's not like
> > any person is going to timeout waiting for an ACK reply or going to
> > crash from an unexpected "thanks" packet.
>
> That gave me a chuckle to read.  Certainly, I should hope that it is
> true... otherwise we'd have to try an experiment to crash the people
> on the list!
>
>   --- Mike
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