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No threat (Score:4, Funny)
IMHO, part of the reason people can be so much more rude over email than in person is two reasons, depending on the type of person you are. One is a lack of empathy. We're monkeys that instinctively feel for other monkeys. Without a warm human physically present, we're not inclined to be empathic.
For some people, this empathy is busted. For them in human-to-human communication there's the implicit threat of physical violence. If you piss me off I might kick you in the balls. Candy bar commercials notwithstanding, nobody's going to fly to your house to kick you in the nuts.
So I propose the MBM protocol. This is a network protocol to speak to a special device which is federally mandated to come with any network capable device. Simply put, it kicks you in the balls. [penny-arcade.com]
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