[net.motss] A Serious Person speaks up

sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer) (11/09/83)

Listen, fellow readers of 'net.motss', the flame/information ratio in this
group is getting pretty high, enough to be obnoxious.  I would like to
publically support J.R. Carbin's recommendations that religious wars be
kept to private mail, or at least to 'net.religion'.  I would find few
responses more eloquent than public silence to the most recent tablets
handed down from Mt. St. Helens by Mr. Johnson at Fluke.

Can we please let public discussion of this issue die?  It goes nowhere,
engenders ill will all around, and tries peoples' patience.  It will come
up again and again to be sure, and it will demand the same restraint each
time.  The same problem was rampant in 'net.women' about abortion until the
group put its foot down.  I would like to see the same consensus here.  If
another one of these guys tries to impose his myopic vision of salvation upon
the members, by all means blast 'im, but do it in private.  I don't want to
have to read either the article or the response, but better one flame than
two.

/Steve Dyer
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