Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!usc!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!texbell!vector!attctc!rissa From: rissa@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Patricia O Tuama) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Flames Message-ID: <11277@attctc.Dallas.TX.US> Date: 2 Feb 90 08:29:16 GMT Organization: Lone Star Cafe Lines: 23 In article jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell) writes: >(2) To alert those who might be unfamiliar with the flamee as to the > flamee's unsavory motives, And this was your excuse for your unprovoked attack on me when you mistakenly thought that Daffy was following up an article from me when in fact he was following up an article from Blair Houghton? As I recall you made up some nonsense about my supporting Richard Nixon, isn't that right? What you're saying here strikes me as nothing more than net.vigi- lanteeism. A lot of netters think you have some mighty unsavory motives yourself, Jeff, for example, your efforts to undermine sci .aquaria by cross-posting your flames there. Would you say that other people would be justified in following you around the net, warning other newsgroups about you because of the way you behaved in this instance? >Still, there are too many hair-trigger tempers on the net. Since it is >unrealistic to expect them to show restraint (it's been tried!), a "Them," Jeff? Or doesn't it count when your temper gets the bet- ter of you?