Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Flames Message-ID: Date: 11 Feb 90 14:04:57 GMT References: <11405@attctc.Dallas.TX.US> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 30 In article <11405@attctc.Dallas.TX.US> rissa@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Patricia O Tuama) writes: > In article <+GM1LY4xds13@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: > >If you really, truly, feel you need to > >flame someone: do it in mail. Then don't send it. > But if, by your own admission, this method doesn't work for you > then why are you lecturing other netters on it? Peter, this is > why people sometimes call you a hypocrite. I don't always follow my own advice. Hell, I've admitted to actually flaming on rare occasions. Which one among us is perfect? Most of that hate mail is the result of someone else drawing me into a flame war in email. And most of *that* is after I have deperately attempted to logically refute some particularly mean-spirited attack. I have this horrible tendency to assume the best of other people, and believe that a rational response to a flame might actually work this time. > >Speaking of your collection of my mail: would you mind telling me how you > >get it? > Oh that's easy, I have a secret account at ficc with root passwd > and I just log in and read everything in your files. Why? How > did you think I get copies of your email? Well, most of it is probably forwarded to you by other gryphonites. But at least once you've referred to a letter that was sent from or to someone who didn't even know you. Either some superuser at a nearby site is snarfing mail and forwarding it to you, or a good friend of my brother's is lying through his teeth. I prefer to believe the former. -- _--_|\ Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . / \ \_.--._/ Xenix Support -- it's not just a job, it's an adventure! v "Have you hugged your wolf today?" `-_-'