FlameWars are a natural phenomena, like tornados or brushfires, better to just let it run it's course. Trying to squelch one is always going make it worse. just remember talk + action = constant
http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi) http://allie.office.efn.org/phpwiki/index.php?OregonPublicNetworking On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Kahli Burke wrote: > kg7fu wrote: > > >Shaddap or I'll smack you around. > > > >People make mistakes and people are assholes...I made a mistake > >and you are quickly going to be filed in the asshole column. > > > > - jk > > > I am not sure if I should even respond to this because it is too easy to > escalate these threads. I will, and risk that my comments are > misinterpreted. I also want to state that I am *not* singling out the > posting quoted above, it is merely the last in this thread and I am > using it for context. With due respect to everyone on this list, the > postings I have seen lately do not reflect the spirit of this list, the > open-source community, or Linux. The audience for this list extends > beyond the small group of people who post regularly, and I think it > casts our community in a poor light when the bandwidth of this list is > filled with bickering, regardless of the intention of the poster. > > I hope many other readers agree, and I would point out that email is a > limited medium that is well suited for discussion of some matters, while > ill suited for others. Let's try to make good decisions about how we > use it. > > Thanks, > > Kahli >
