ianr@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Ian ROWLANDS) (12/15/90)
Just a question to everybody who likes participating and starting these wars - is it safe to come out from behind my kill file yet? I look at the news, and say 'great - 100 new articles'. Then my kill file works, and only about 30 are left after killing all the current flame wars. The basic question is - when can all interested readers have our group back? The Amiga flamers seem to have hijacked it. Ian Ian Rowlands | Uni : ianr@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au Dept. of Electrical Engineering, | OR ..!uunet!munnari!mullian!ianr (including Computer Science) | Home : ianr@gpark.pub.uu.oz.au University of Melbourne | OR ..!uunet!munnari!gpark.pub.uu.oz.au!ianr
kkrueger@zeus.unomaha.edu (12/24/90)
In article <6277@munnari.oz.au>, ianr@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Ian ROWLANDS) writes: > Just a question to everybody who likes participating and starting > these wars - is it safe to come out from behind my kill file yet? I look at > the news, and say 'great - 100 new articles'. Then my kill file works, and > only about 30 are left after killing all the current flame wars. > > The basic question is - when can all interested readers have our group > back? The Amiga flamers seem to have hijacked it. Ms. Manners (Judith Martin) says that there is a lack of politeness in our society, and she is 100% correct. If people would just stop to think "How does my message make others feel?" the net would be a lot better place. The thing is, most flamers don't have the courage to tell people what they think in person, but the net is more impersonal and feedback is delayed, so bravery comes at little cost. I heard one person claim recently that he was flamed for posting dull messages. I saw someone get flamed by a Ph.D. in chemistry for making a few minor mistakes (harmless ones at that) in a procedure. The Ph.D. got downright personally insulting. The problem is, this newsgroup has a reputation for flamers among the Usenet community as a whole, and what does that do for the Amiga's reputation? I've seen a few jokes on other newsgroups about CSA-Atari flamewars. It all begins with each individual. If I detect a flame to my messages or those of someone else, I type NEXT at the NEWS> prompt without hesitation. By doing this, I'm not tempted to fire back because I don't even know much of what the idiot said. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kurt Krueger | BITNET: KKRUEGER@UNOMA1 | //\ MBA student | Internet: KKRUEGER@ZEUS.UNOMAHA.EDU | \X/--\ M I G A ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TYPE flames >null: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------