J. van Baardwijk wrote: > >As for what I said, well, personal attacks doesn't ever let > anyone 'win' > >an argument/discussion. So I fail to see what the big deal is. > > Those personal attacks tend to have quite a lot of effect on > the list as a > whole -- and not exactly a positive effect...
I'll disagree here again. :) The personal attacks, in and by themselves, do nothing more than cause a momentary unpleasantness. The effect on the list is determined by how the list reacts to these attacks. I recently was called some names by a listee. That was one event. In response, a lot of nice folks here spoke up in my defense. That's another event. And I think that the negative effects of the former were more than made up for by the positive effects of the latter. Of course, all this is strictly imho. Ritu _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
