RE: Hotmail

[Tuan Pham <tuan.pham@unsw.edu.au>]

>I studied this type of problems as one of the first lessons of a Postmodern
>Textual theories class.
>...
>I think a look at this at a broader scope is worth a discussion. Narrowing
>it to personal attitude may not be helpful since it will likely side-track
>elsewhere.


Hello Ba'c Te`o

What do you mean by "a broader scope" and "personal attitude"?
Are they the post-modernist equivalents of "everything goes"
and "code of behaviour"? :)


>We haven't had that kind of cho+. ca' and anonymity here ...is
>it because people are NOT anonymous? It might have to do with other aspects
>like how we exchange, our sense of courtesy and respect. These can still
>perfectly hold even with an <anonymous identity>.
>

My experience is that when a person joins a reputable forum
under a fake name it is almost always with destructive
purposes.

I don't know about the USA, but here in Australia
the major newspapers still don't publish anonymous letters.
They have a hundred-year-old reputation to protect.
Looks like they are content to talk about postmodern theories,
not adhering to them! :)


Frank Nguyen asked

>By the way, I really do not understand what you mean by saying this:
>
>"When did the rot set in? Is the attitude above typically 
>American or only Viet-American?"
>
>Could you please explain a little bit more?
>

Well, it is not a Vietnamese attitude, and not an Australian 
attitude, as far as I know!

Call me a dinosaur if you like -
I participate in cyberspace but see no reason to change
my code of behaviour or moral beliefs just because it's 
a different environment.


Cheers
Tuan Pham