HARTLAUB@DULRUU51.BITNET (Udo Hartlaub) (02/08/90)
Reading again some of the Wish-list-discussion I wonder and wonder what people mean with "flaming" and "flame". Please help me! Udo Hartlaub TEL: (0731) 176-2687 Abt. f. Virologie FAX: (0731) 176-2038 Universitaet Ulm EARN/BITNET: HARTLAUB@DULRUU51 DFN/EAN: HARTLAUB@RZ.UNI-ULM.DBP.DE P.O.B. 4066 D 7900 Ulm West Germany
clark@MSHRI.UTORONTO.CA (02/09/90)
/Reading again some of the Wish-list-discussion I wonder and wonder /what people mean with "flaming" and "flame". /Please help me! A flame is net-slang for an aggressive, spiteful, personal and/or vindictive (ie nasty) criticism. It can be used as a noun or verb. On some news groups, the flaming can get pretty hot, and, in my opinion, leads to a degeneration of information exchange. Hope we can avoid them on this list! Stephen Clark clark@mshri.utoronto.ca (Internet) sinai@utoroci (Netnorth/Bitnet) "We should be quite remiss not to emphasize that despite the popularity of secondary structural prediction schemes, and the almost ritual performance of these calculations, the information available from this is of limited reliability. This is true even of the best methods now known, and much more so of the less successful methods commonly available in sequence analysis packages. Running a secondary structure prediction on a newly-determined sequence just because everyone else does so, is to be deplored, and the fact that the results of such predictions are generally ignored is insufficient justification for doing and publishing them." - Arthur Lesk, 1988