hom@houxm.UUCP (H.MORRIS) (09/18/85)
I would like to request that when a newsgroup you find useful suddenly becomes inundated with some exchange of hotheaded oppinions which makes it difficult to wade through, that EVERYONE who would like to stop the debate simply save a copy of the flamer's article and mail it back to him/her (say, use s- flame; issue `r-' command, then start editing your reply with `r flame') with a brief comment. This takes very little thought or time, and is perfect poetic justice. Flamer will have about as much of his/her time wasted as the cumulative amount of time wasted by thousands of people all over the country, or he/she will have to give up reading his/her mail, as many of us have given up reading net news. No doubt I will be subjected to my own weapon by the flame-lovers, and we may also have a flaming debate on the a merits of my idea. It is just my recommendation that when somebody puts something really off-the-wall (and long and tedious, with long extracts of somebody else's article thrown in) into your newsgroup, you send the whole thing back to them along with an appropriate comment, like "look, I didn't need to have my time wasted this way". (Ulp, here they come at me now)