> How come the general posture here seems to be to
> presume posters to be stupid or confused or looking
> for an argument and just generally deserving of abuse?

It's got nothing to do with the ego size of the responders. Really.

> I have seen so many posts where the added sentence
> "You idiot" would have been consistent with the tone
> of the response.  Civility doesn't cost anything, why
> don't more people use it?

Perhaps because rudeness is so much cheaper ?

Peter

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