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- From: bm665@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jay Robert Hauben)
- Newsgroups: alt.amateur-comp
- Subject: Re: Famous flame wars, examples please?
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 20:57:09 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Message-ID: <1hd875INNs3u@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- References: <1992Dec10.222641.16976@nas.nasa.gov> <1992Dec3.184225.5824@shearson.com> <92339.134349SPIT@EVALUN11.BITNET> <BywBLt.99E@NeoSoft.com>
- Reply-To: bm665@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jay Robert Hauben)
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-
- I am reposting this message from alt.folklore.computers. It is a guide
- to the important phenomenum of Flame Wars. The second half of this
- message suggests a taxonomy of Usenet News participants.
-
- In a previous article, eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) says:
-
- >In article <BywBLt.99E@NeoSoft.com> claird@NeoSoft.com (Cameron Laird) writes:
- >>Proposed taxonomy:
- >>I. Usenet-specific disputes:
- >> A. renamings [multitudinous]
- >> B. "N shouldn't F, because of the no-commerce rule"
- >> C. "What I write is {im,ex}plicitly {,not} copyrighted."
- >> C. other arguments
- >> 1. what is usenet: oldtimers vs. pups
- >> 2. other
- >>II. Political correctness
- >> A. gender issues
- >> 1. having a gender ...
- >> 2. homosexuality
- >> B. ethnicity in Amurrica
- >>III. Sports
- >> A. "Ed Lor doesn't have the facts"
- >> B. other
- >>IV. Cranks
- >> A. Scientific
- >> 1. pyramid builders
- >> 2. perpetual movers
- >> 3. planet re-aligners
- >> B. Ethnic haters
- >> 1. Turks
- >> 2. anti-Turks
- >> 3. other
- >>V. Fundamental rudeness
- >> A. spelling
- >> B. your mother
- >> C. anything involving *.psuvm.edu
- >>VI. religious differences
- >> A. emacs vs. vi
- >> B. UNIX vs. VMS
- >> C. Microsoft vs. anyone
- >> D. assembly language vs. fifth generation
- >> E. H. Rubin vs. 21st century
- >
- >I like this taxonomy. Keep reposting it from time to time.
- >
- >One of my favorite flame wars from net.space/SPACE-digest mailing list
- >from 1982 on is the toxicity of plutonium.
- >
- >just passing thru.....
- >
- >--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
- > Associate Editor, Software and Publication Reviews
- > Scientific Programming
- > {uunet,mailrus,other gateways}!ames!eugene
- >Seeking Books to buy: Bongard, Pattern Recognition
- > 3 down 1 to go.
- >
- >
- >The CA DMV News posting quiz
- >
- >Test your news skills (answer T or F).
- >
- >Beginner (reader)
- > Can deliberately (not accidentally) invoke mail, news, bbs, or notes.
- > Can get out of said system cleanly (without issuing an interrupt).
- > Might be able to read news. Can't post or send mail
- > (probably because it invokes a foreign editor).
- > Blown away when .newsrc (or .notesrc) starts up with 2245 lines (e.g.).
- > Can't understand strange symbols.
- > Strictly a lurker.
- >
- >Intermediate (user)
- > Beyond the beginner stage.
- > Can read news groups sequentially.
- > Can post follow-ups.
- > Capable of invoking the system help command.
- > Incapable of skipping articles.
- > Not necessarily capable of article or group searching.
- > Selectively reads news groups. Ignores the rest.
- > Expects others to post and generate articles like a magazine.
- > Does not understand flame wars.
- > Recognizes smilies 8^) [I have glasses.], maybe makes ASCII graphics.
- > Lurker, sometime poster.
- >
- >Advanced (poster)
- > Beyond the intermediate stage.
- > Can read news groups or posts in any order (random access).
- > Can skip news articles.
- > Can search a news article or new group.
- > Can unsubscribe/subscribe from news.groups at will.
- > Understands the differences in terminology (e.g., doesn't freak out
- > when seeing the words notesfile, BBS, or discussion group).
- > Knows how to use Followup lines.
- > Can use Kill files.
- > Can understands and edits .newsrc, .notesrc, .signature, etc. files.
- > May understand the news.hierarchy.
- > Can set up FAQs.
- > Understands flame wars.
- >
- >System Admin ()
- > Beyond the advanced poster stage.
- > Can set up a news system.
- > Can decipher UUCP Paths.
- > Can clean a news system when the file system gets full.
- > Understands (read and edit) headers.
- > Knows where articles actually sit.
- > Understands or can set up news gateways.
- > Understands accounts like root, system, postmaster, etc.
- > Can control flame wars. ( rm -r /usr/spool/news/fav.news.path 8^)
- > Not without a sense of humor.
- > Able to piece together and understand deliberately obscure FAQ postings.
- > May know how to forge postings.
- > May moderate a news.group.
- >
- >Explain the initials DMV in this context?
- >
- >
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