[bit.listserv.info-gcg] What is "flame" ?

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!


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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

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"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