[net.news.group] Is flaming a communicable disease?

chabot@miles.DEC (11/25/85)

It looks like the answer is yes.  At least, as regards to newsgroups--look at 
the content of this one!  A month ago we had these bouts of name-calling over
proposals about deletion of newsgroups, and now we get just out-and-out 
character assasination of Rich Rosen.

Can't you people clean up your behavior, and leave personal squabbles out of
net.news.group?  A hardly ignorable volume of postings seems to indicate that
net.personal_vendetta would be popular, but isn't this the kind of thing that
many here don't want to support--and why net.flame was deleted?

If you can't deal with someone disagreeing with you without name-calling or
name-implying, do you really think you should be expressing yourself in 
net.news.group?

L S Chabot