{"id":370,"date":"2008-09-09T12:58:08","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T17:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bly.com\/blog\/general\/my-dispute-with-angus\/"},"modified":"2008-09-09T12:58:08","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T17:58:08","slug":"my-dispute-with-angus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/general\/my-dispute-with-angus\/","title":{"rendered":"My Dispute with Angus"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few minutes ago I got an e-mail from Angus, one of my e-zine subscribers, who objected to the frequency with which I send e-mail marketing messages to him.<\/p>\n

“I don’t mind getting your offers, but you are sending too f@#$%ing many,” said Andre (using the F-word). <\/p>\n

I replied, “There is no need to use abusive language with me” and told him I would unsubscribe him immediately.<\/p>\n

He replied that I was coming off to him as “rude” and “thin-skinned.”<\/p>\n

Folks, I think we have entered the Twilight Zone here.<\/p>\n

This guy e-mails me an e-mail with an obscenity … but it’s ME, not him, who’s rude?<\/p>\n

Anybody see a disconnect here?<\/p>\n

There are many things I love about the Internet.<\/p>\n

But one thing I dislike is how the anonymity of e-mail emboldens some folks to lose all inhibition, and say anything they please — things they would never dream of saying face to face unless they were looking to start an altercation.<\/p>\n

Am I right saying that Angus, not me, is the rude one here?<\/p>\n

Or am I so out of touch that Netiquette today says it’s fine to use profanities when e-mailing strangers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few minutes ago I got an e-mail from Angus, one of my e-zine subscribers, who objected to the frequency with which I send e-mail marketing messages to him. “I don’t mind getting your offers, but you are sending too f@#$%ing many,” said Andre (using the F-word). I replied, “There is no need to use […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}