OCONNORDM@GE-CRD.ARPA (OCONNOR DENNIS MICHAEL) (11/13/86)
Date: 13-NOV-1986 13:07
From: Dennis O'Connor
Sender: OCONNORDM
Subject: Courtesy, Arguments, and Powersats
To: SPACE@ANGBAND@SMTP
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When I originally put forth the question of
Powersats as Weapons, which evolved into Space
Installations as Military Oportunities, I
( in my naivete about network newsgroups ) was
looking forward to speculation on the practicality
or impracticality of using "commercial" space
resources as "military" ones, much as is already the
case in communications satelites.
Instead, I've mainly gotten flames and ad-hominum
attacks from "Dale.Amon", whoever he is. This person
doesn't realy respond to what anyone says, he just
flames. And if his flaming doesn't succeed, he starts
insulting people. He has claimed I am paranoid, but
gee, "Dale.Amon", WHEN THE HELL DID YOU EVER EVEN MEET ME?
"Dale.Amon" ( is that your real name? ) has about as much
cause to call me paranoid as I have of calling him an
evangelical dogmatic knee-jerk fanatical idealogue.
He has also essentially stated that people who prefer
to live on Earth ( when they could go to space ) are
inferior in some way. This is essentially the "IF
YOU DON'T AGREE WITH ME YOU MUST BE A MORON" view
of life, which is generally only held by morons.
"Dale.Amon", from now on please try to respond in
kind to people on the net. When a message is trying
to conduct a dispassionate technical argument, DO
NOT respond with FLAMES, PERSONAL ATTACKS and
FALLACIOUS INACURATE INCOMPLETE ANALOGIES. ( And yes,
I know your not doing this to me personally, since you
seem to do it to everyone. See, I'm not paranoid. )
If someone wants to flame and counterflame with you,
fine. BUT I DON'T WANT TO.
Yes, this message is a flame, and contains
ad-hominum attacks. But hopefully it will act as
a "vacine", generating mental "anti-bodies" through-out
the SPACE net, to help stop this "plague" of
discourteous, counterproductive and annoying flames
before the net deteriorates.
With apologies,
Dennis O'Connor
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