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- From: tittle@ics.uci.edu (Cindy Tittle Moore)
- Subject: Re: Kill Files was: Re: Netiquette
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- Message-ID: <2B38DEC9.6560@ics.uci.edu>
- Newsgroups: rec.pets.dogs
- Reply-To: tittle@ics.uci.edu (Cindy Tittle Moore)
- Organization: ICS Dept., UC Irvine
- Lines: 37
- Date: 23 Dec 92 21:48:57 GMT
- References: <9212182326.AA2182@f723.n202.z1.fidonet.org> <22948@drutx.ATT.COM> <1992Dec23.154530.27053@inel.gov>
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- In <1992Dec23.154530.27053@inel.gov> kte@INEL.GOV (Kathryn L Cook) writes:
- [on why *not* to use kill files]
-
- >I think people like you need to be around for balance and comfort
- >when someone gets a message like "kill your dog" for the slightest
- >problem. If one person on r.p.d does this without any balancing
- >opinions, what will the world think of us and what will happen to the
- >dogs.
-
- Well, look at it from this point of view: someone posts about a
- problem X. Twenty people respond, possibly more by email. Of those
- responses, 19 say Y, and 1 says "kill it." What do you think the
- original someone is going to think? "Oh, a nut case, I'll ignore that
- one." Meanwhile the group is spared of a "What do you *mean*, 'kill
- it'??!!" thread.
-
- I don't have too many people in my kill file, but there are some who I
- have had no compunction about dropping into it. Subsequent spillage
- from flamewars only convince me that I was right in the first place to
- ignore that person.
-
- If certain individuals, who promote extremist solutions, are ignored,
- while good advice is given directly to the person asking, I think that
- does more good than lengthy threads debating those certain
- individuals' characters.
-
- --Cindy
- --
- Cindy Tittle Moore
-
- Terrell's Chocolate Deduction--Hershe (Labrador Retriever)
-
- The rec.pets.dogs FAQ -- all ten parts -- is available via ftp to
- pit-manager.mit.edu under pub/usenet/news.answers/dogs-faq/*. There
- is a mail server, email me for details.
-
- In loving memory of Betsy: 4-10-92 to 8-19-92...
-