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From: johncp@sdsioa.UUCP (John Phillips x6054)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Flaming Style Pointer
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Date: Thu, 20-Jun-85 16:40:34 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 20 16:40:34 1985
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> A suggestion on flaming style was recently posted to this newsgroup:
> 
> > If you're going to post to this group the flame should include
> > one or more of the following:
> > 
> > 	a) name calling
> > 	b) sarcasim
> > 	c) foul language
> > 	d) slander
> > 
> 
> I hasten to point out that these`suggestions only apply if you are
> still an undergraduate (or, perhaps, a still-retarded graduate student)
> at a university that is not careful who it lets represent it in public.
> If you > assumed that you have successfully survived puberty and no longer need
> to indulge in adolescent name calling, adolescent sarcasim(sic), or 
> adolescent foul language.  As to slander: legal remedies are available
> to anyone actually slandered on the net.  
> 
> I look forward each year to the summer vacations at the schools around
> the country -- the intellectual level of the discussions on the net go
> up substantially until September rolls around again.
> 
> Happy Summer Vacation, Students.
> 
> Happier Summer Respite to the rest of you netters!!!
> 
> 					Rich Strebendt
> 					...!ihnp4!iwsl6!res

Go purse your lips elsewhere, milquetoast!

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