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- From: peipyy@robots (PETER YASUDA)
- Subject: Re: Space List Flame Wars
- Message-ID: <4JAN199316180379@robots>
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 21:18:00 GMT
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- In article <C0BGzz.1FA.1@cs.cmu.edu>,
- pgf@srl03.cacs.usl.edu ("Phil G. Fraering") writes...
-
- >\I subscribed to this list in order to try to inform myself about the latest
- >/news about US and other coutnries' space programs. I thought that this would
- >\be a list of technical discussions, not a religious debate that has turned
- >/into ad hominem attacks and flame wars as virulent as any I've seen in the
- >\religious news groups. Then I see things like this, from Herman Rubin:
-
- (excerpts of rantings deleted)
-
- >1. Henry Spencer's little excerpt isn't political ranting but a
- > good summary of the facts. If you don't think so, you need to
- > look at the background of the COPOUS Treaty.
-
- Great! Let's degenerate this thread into a flame war on what
- constitutes ranting.
-
-
- >2. Currently our space programs are run mainly by the government,
- ...(unrelated stuff deleted)
- > of the situation." The people trying to push this off into
- > other newsgroups, which are accesible neither for posting
- > nor reading purposes to much of the internet population, are
- ...(more deleted)
-
- OK, if the problem is that some people don't have access to the other
- newsgroups suggested by the originator of this thread, I suggest
- either of the following solutions:
-
- 1. Move the offending threads to a new newsgroup (sci.space.advocacy)
- or create a sci.space.news or sci.space.dispassionate.discussion.
-
- 2. Use meaningful subject lines.
-
- The latter would be good practice with or without the former. It
- would be a lot easier to sift through postings if the subject lines
- reflected the actual topic. For (just one) example, the "Re: Latest
- Pegasus news?" thread managed to stay on the topic for about two
- postings before turning into the same discussion that seems to occupy
- half the threads in this newsgroup.
-
- Would it be too much trouble to change the subject line once a thread
- has moved off to an entirely new topic?
-
- Changing "Terminal velocity of..." to "Stupid Shut Cost arguements..."
- is an excellent example of what I'd like to see.
-