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Dear Olivia,

I do not agree with the analysis that "rudeness is a distinctive sign of 
cyberspace". Cyberspace is the coputerized part of our western society which 
expects that a certain amount of rudeness and egoistic behaviour is needed to be 
"successfull". Success is more and more worldwide measured in private income. 
Its no more in God we trust but in our tricks.
Comparing the eMail media with other media, it sometimes reminds me of the 
phone. Imagine that you have to do your eMail postage in the evening, at night, 
(it is 11.00 p.m. now) to save money. You know: Other people are able now, to to 
other things. You had a bad bad day, and to delete to many things you loaded 
down just to knows what the hell museum -L-people are doing and thinking. You do 
it fast, too fast, you read too fast, you write too fast. This is a not a media 
culture, this a a media torture. For the use of the phone we had time to develop 
a "phoning culture", saying for example who`s on the line and bye-bye. Listen to 
somebody who very good on the phone (a secretary or a top salesman), and you 
know what I mean with media culture.

Even knowing that a eMail archive is existing which lists also your crude 
behaviour to other people, you give a dam on it. Tomorrow is another day. 
But this is wrong.
In good old Latin there was a saying: "Quidquid agis, prudenter agas, et respice 
finem." (Whatever you do, do it wise, and keep the end in mind). Maybay tomorrow 
you applicate for a job and people remember your eMail behaviour and decide 
against you not liking that kind of crude troubleshooters.

Best regards

CMS