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From: mario@wjvax.UUCP (Mario Dona)
Newsgroups: talk.origins,alt.flame
Subject: Re: Flat Earth?  More mindless drivel.
Keywords: Mescaline-flavored Jell-O brain-damaged morons
Message-ID: <1220@wjvax.UUCP>
Date: 15 Feb 88 18:56:49 GMT
References: <10731@shemp.UCLA.EDU> <292@ivory.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <1947@culdev1.UUCP> <299@ivory <304@ivory.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <32726COK@PSUVMA>
Reply-To: mario@wjvax.UUCP (Mario Dona)
Organization: Watkins-Johnson Co., San Jose, Calif.
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In article <32726COK@PSUVMA> COK@PSUVMA.BITNET (The Pentagonal Potentate 
and the Kzinti Ambassador) writes:

[many nasty things ...]

While it's expected that emotional exchange of words take place in this
newsgroup, must vulgar language and personal insults be tolerated?

The primary purpose on the newsnet is to exchange information, not
insults.  Not only is it rude, but it wastes everyones time having to wade
through all the garbage.