Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!MITWIBR!GILBERT From: GILBERT@MITWIBR.BITNET Newsgroups: bit.listserv.info-gcg Subject: Flame... Message-ID: Date: 8 Feb 90 16:01:00 GMT Sender: "INFO-GCG: Univ. of Wisconsin Genetics Analysis Software Discussion" Reply-To: GILBERT@MITWIBR Lines: 6 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway Original_To: JNET%"info-GCG@utoronto" A flame is were you say something and everyone turns on you in disagreement. It a bulletin board term, like IMHO, "in my humble opion" It soft of like the old CB talk, 10-4. It make writing message faster. I 've got a list of them from my compuserve account, I'll see if I can find them.