<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 23.10.2011, at 15:08, Gert van Santen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Long story short: it saddens me how rude people ar these days, how little they care about knowledge to form their opinions, and how terrible their grammar and spelling are.<br></span></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div>Is this because the same people are actually getting more stupid or is this because the internet is growing at an amazing rate and everyone is online now -- giving lid-blowers an outlet to vent and people who can hardly speak straight a place to try typing instead?</div><div><br></div><div>(remember what happened when AOL opened up to Usenet?)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I do agree though. Forums for some German newspapers are incredible. People rant and bitch flame and troll, it's crazy...!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Kai</div><div><br></div></body></html>