It's nice to be nice. I do try to encompass as many of those qualities as I can when posting online, as it seems far too many folk are content to abandon them in favour of ill-considered personal attacks (on complete strangers, for that matter). Internet fora, like the world, are as wonderful as we make them - and as awful as we allow them to be.
That said, I'm about to begin a foray into an OS war so we'll see how long my good intentions last...
It was hard resisting the temptation to exclaim 'First post!'