CONNAGT@YALEMED.BITNET (03/17/88)
*** FLAME ON *** RE: Help us defend against VMS! Barry Shein bzs@bu-cs.bu.edu Erland Sommarskog sommar@enea.se I, for one, would rather be spared the kind of verbal assaults that have been launched across the nets by the above authors. Constructive criticism and arguments are healthy tools for bringing about a greater awareness of an issue but when these degrade into attacks, they will serve only to confuse the issues and offend the parties involved. If either of you wish to continue this discussion in the manner which you have chosen , please clutter your own mailboxes with it and leave mine alone. If you feel you must continue it on this list, please use the above '*** FLAME ON ***' convention so that readers can quickly discard the message if they don't want to be subjected to the kind of personal abuse which you have deemed as being an appropriate response. Respond directly to me if you would like to contend this issue so that INFO-VAX can be spared the needless and fruitless volume. *** FLAME OFF *** Paul V. Connaughton Biomedical Computing Unit Yale School of Medicine CONNAGT@YALEMED.BITNET