Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ns-mx!iowasp!ceres!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think!snorkelwacker!mit-eddie!attctc!rissa From: rissa@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Patricia O Tuama) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Flames Message-ID: <11368@attctc.Dallas.TX.US> Date: 8 Feb 90 06:06:53 GMT Organization: Lone Star Cafe Lines: 29 In article peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: >I defer to your superior knowledge on the subject of flames. As one of >the top posters to alt.flame you are obviously an expert on the subject. Oh, Peter, you big silly, I explained this to you in my last arti- cle -- posting to alt.flame has nothing to do with writing flames. Considerably more flames are posted to groups like alt.sex, misc. misc, misc.headlines, talk.politics.misc, talk.abortion, talk.poli- tics.guns, talk.religion.newage, talk.rape, soc.men, soc.women, soc. singles, and of course, news.groups, than ever show up in alt.flame. Besides, regardless of what the intent was in the beginning, a.f no longer really functions as a catchall group where netters are sup- posed to "take" quarrels -- in fact, I'll bet that less 10% of all flames are posted to a.f. At this point, alt.flame functions as a sort of clubhouse in much the same manner that soc.singles, talk. bizarre and alt.sex do. >I'm sure you have a few squirreled away somewhere. Until then... No, sorry, I do have a surprisingly large collection of your hate. mail but I haven't made a habit of saving your postings. But thank you for your invitation. Until then.... .... won't you please explain why you're so relunctant to admit that your flames are flames? Pretty please?