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- From: eeb1@ellis.uchicago.edu (e elizabeth bartley)
- Subject: Re: Attention!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.002039.8859@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- References: <1992Sep8.151356.9274@csus.edu>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 00:20:39 GMT
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- In response to Steve Chaney's length discussion of his flames:
-
- Suit yourself. I'm feeling relatively anti-flames at the moment, but
- I have moods when I enjoy flaming and reading flames, and your tactics
- rather guarantee plenty of flamage. I do think that your tactics do
- the pro-life side of the argument considerably more harm than good,
- but as I'm pro-choice this doesn't distress me.
-
- However, I do want to note that the tactic of fighting fire with fire
- wrt flames on talk.abortion has never worked in the past, and I do not
- expect it to work now. What I've seen on talk.abortion since
- beginning to read it has been a viscious circle of flamage:
- pro-choicers flaming pro-lifers because of pro-lifers flaming
- pro-choicers because of pro-choicers flaming pro-lifers, all the
- flames slowly escalating all the while.
-
- Actually, a possible tactic for everyone trying to flame to counteract
- other's flames: put "this article is a flame" in your header as a
- keyword. That way, anyone who wants to avoid the flames can simply
- put /this article is a flame/h:j in their KILLfile, and miss all of
- the flamage from those considerate enough to label their flames as
- such without missing any other articles except those mislabelled
- intentionally (since the string "this article is a flame" wouldn't
- occur accidentally in a subject line).
-
- --
- Pro-Choice Anti-Roe - E. Elizabeth Bartley
- Abortions should be safe, legal, early, and rare.
-
- Cthulhu for President -- when you're tired of voting for the lesser of 2 evils.
-