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From: hilda@kaos.UUCP (Hilda Marshall)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,soc.women,alt.flame,soc.motss
Subject: Re: A reply to 'Queerboy alert' -- long, but worth reading.
Summary: baiting
Message-ID: <593@kaos.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 88 17:17:36 GMT
References: <2493@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <381@flatline.UUCP> <715@mit-caf.UUCP> <400@flatline.UUCP> <3162@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: hilda@kaos.UUCP (Hilda Marshall)
Organization: Dea Ex Machina
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In article <3162@cup.portal.com> Isaac_K_Rabinovitch@cup.portal.com writes:
>
>...Your anger at those electronic Nazis is
>appropriate, and you've all expressed it in an intelligent, restrained
>manner.  But anger, however expressed, is what these guys want.

>...If you read their comments carefully, you'll
>realize that they get off on angry and disaproving responses, and
>their comments are carefully designed to provoke such responses.
>
True enough, Isaac.  Baiting and its success clog up more bandwidth
than anything else, at least in the groups I read.  "Flaming" that
does nothing to introduce the information that these morons obviously
lack is just a lot of verbiage, and attempts to impart information
are by and large useless.  SO WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING?  What
can we do?  Especially when some creep lands on some decent person
and hurts their feelings?  Sticking to the point is the only thing
that comes immediately to mind.

-Hilda