Xref: utzoo news.admin:8287 news.groups:17654 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!tale From: tale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups Subject: Re: alt.rant? (Re: Flames) Message-ID: Date: 12 Feb 90 06:03:49 GMT References: <38193@apple.Apple.COM> <1746@dukeac.UUCP> <3YO1.E5xds13@ficc.uu.net> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Lines: 35 In <3YO1.E5xds13@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: > Perhaps it should be called a meaner word, like "rant". Golly gee, Beaver, that would really burn 'em up, wouldn't it? Something really mean like that would really force a change around here. > And we need a suitable ghetto for the top ranters on the net to > expose their genitals at each other without disturbing the saner > majority. Whatever makes you think that they would use it? Does any flame war ever get moved out of the group it was occuring in and into alt.flame, "Followup-To: alt.flame" header lines and all? No. They never do. At least good net.citizens who accept that they are very much flaming often crosspost to that group so kill files can do their work. A large number of articles that appear in alt.flame are not crossed into any other groups; they recognise that flaming has entertainment value too. Very rarely are these non-crossposted flames really related to some topic that you would expect to see in some regular USENET group. > I would like to note, though, that I recently had a look at > alt.flame. I must say that most of the stuff in there falls into the > "rant" category. So why do you suggest alt.rant? You never mentioned in the article but you're header and the "need a suitable ghetto" line seem to indicate that you think the group should be created. With alt.flame, alt.peeves, alt.stupidity and such all already existing to do the imagined job that you think the new group would perform why do we need to add that to it all too? Because "rant" is such a scathing word? Dave -- (setq mail '("tale@cs.rpi.edu" "tale@ai.mit.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet")) "Nice plant. Looks like a table cloth."