Introduction

Lorsque les humains entrent en relation, cela crée invariablement des conflits. Lorsqu'en plus cela se produit à travers un medium aussi impersonnel qu'un réseau d'ordinateur, cet effet est encore plus prononcé, parfois même jusqu'à la caricature. Heureusement, la plupart de ces conflits peuvent être résolus par un peu de compréhension et de diplomacie, et en particulier, un minimum de courtoisie et de politesse permet d'éviter bien des problèmes. When humans deal with each other, problems invariably arise. When dealing with each other through the extremely impersonal medium of a computer network, this effect gets to be more pronounced, and can be greatly exaggerated. Fortunately, most of these difficulties can be solved by a little understanding and diplomacy, and particularily, some standard courtesy and commonsense politeness is a good way to reduce any strain or stress.

A very good thing to remember is that the World really is a vast place. Whereas the standard of what's polite seems to generally be much the same all over, the cultural differences all over the World make great differences as to how polite people are and just what's thought of as an insult. At places some behaviour, like cursing and calling names, are commonplace, whereas at other places this is a deadly insult. Likewise, at places shouting around could be rude, whereas at others being all quiet could be perceived the same.

For these reasons, and after several lengthy "discussions" in the newsgroup rec.games.go (flamewar might be more accurate a term), it's become obvious there is a need for a periodical posting on the etiquette.

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