trc (02/28/83)
I was rather disappointed to see Martin Taylor's flame - do all discussions of controversial topics on the net have to end with stuff like this? Cant we allow someone to disagree with us without feeling that the other person is attacking us personally, causing us to attack in supposed retaliation? I, for one, would enjoy a "net.partytalk", in which it is possible to hold conversations on any topic without periodic discussions of whether the discussion belongs someplace else, and without anyone taking the discussion so personally that they start to apply character assassination. I guess that the only problem with such a news group would be that everyone would enjoy it so much that other non technical groups might die out. But perhaps that would just be a good sign that a "catagorized" system might not be the best way to run the network. Oh well, it was a pretty good discussion for a while there. Tom Craver houti!trc American Bell