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- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!unixhub!ditka!eagercon!eagercon!eager
- From: eager@eagercon.com (Michael J. Eager)
- Subject: Re: Questions from a disillusioned newbie
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.175601.15481@eagercon.com>
- Sender: root@eagercon.com (Operator)
- Reply-To: eager@eagercon.com
- Organization: Eager Consulting
- References: <93021.56402.J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:56:01 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- In article J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM, J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM () writes:
- > I've been reading this newsgroup for a couple of weeks now, and all I see
- >is flame, flame, flame. Is that standard here?
-
- It seems that there are a few folks who have short fuses. Most of the time,
- there is more reasonable discussion, often a little heated. Frequently a number
- of different viewpoints, usually well presented.
-
- I do note that there are a few folks who seem never to have anything to
- contribute other than to attemt to denigrate others for anything that they
- say or do. They seem to take great pleasure in pointing out what they think
- are the defects in someone's (perhaps everyone's) posts. One can only hope
- that they get a life or drown in their own bile.
-
- >
- > There's this flap over this Tina character, and the ensuing debate between
- >her supporter and her detractors (note that "supporter" is singular here, gang)
- >about the entire episode. Is it always necessary to wear a flame retardant
- >suit here? Wow...I didn't know that one had to be divisive to be single today.
-
- You don't need flame retardant. But you do need to have a bit of a perspective:
- it's only the net. You need not take every asshole who makes some incoherent
- response to your posting seriously.
-
- Tina made statements on the net which I don't think that the majority of
- people would make in public. And the net is public. Worse, she understood that
- they might be offensive to a number of people, but continued to defend them.
- The net is not know for being particularly tollerant of insults or for being
- patient.
-
- > 'Scuse me while I sneak out the back door before the flames come this way...
-
- Don't trip over the trash cans in the alley.
-
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- Michael J. Eager Michael.Eager@eagercon.com
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