Jeremy Zawodny writes about Mailing List Behavior.

Sometimes I worry that I'm becoming one of those grizzly old Unix geeks that gets sick of all the young kids who are invading what used to be great technical mailing lists. Some people just don't get it. There are fairly basic rules that, when followed, go a long way toward making mailing lists useful communities for everyone involved. [Jeremy Zawodny's blog]

I remember when I first got online, I was a bit intimidated by mailing lists and news groups. I watched numerous other newbies get ripped to shreds for posting without learning the rules. These days I don't see that much of that either and it kind of saddens me.