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- From: scott@bogus.net.address (Scott Tai)
- Subject: t: A theory of flames
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.024012.13467@ncsu.edu>
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- Reply-To: scott@bogus.net.address (Scott Tai)
- Organization: /usr/scott
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 02:40:12 GMT
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- mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner) writes:
- : After being on several nets for several years, I have come to the
- : conclusion that the flame level on any given newsgroup, forum, echo, or
- : whatever you wish to call it, is a constant once the forum matures.
- :
- : It doesn't matter whether two people are going at it hammer and tong with
- : everyone else not participating, or whether there are more people involved,
- : each with a lower flame level than if there were only two people at it.
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- Yes - these petty flames have devoured me - I have not the strength
- to endure it.
-
- --
- Scott Andrew Tai
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