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Subject:Frequency of flame wars From:Peggy Thompson <Peggy_Thompson -at- CCMAIL -dot- OSTI -dot- GOV> Date:Tue, 7 Jun 1994 14:18:00 -0400
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I have to second what Caryn Rizell wrote about the frequency of
flame wars (which she courageously called rudeness) on this
list. I subscribe to another active list for professional
writers, a list fraught with the usual disagreements and
divergence of opinion, and that list does not appear to me to
generate a fraction of the hostility that erupts here.
Bright people are impassioned, but must we be nasty to those
with whom we disagree? :-)
