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From: mark@hp-kirk.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Re: Sickening, sickening, sickening. - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 8-Jul-83 03:23:52 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  8 03:23:52 1983
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hp-kirk!mark    Jul  6 08:48:00 1983

This is net.flame.  It is a unique group amongst the assorted, diverse
offerings of the net.  It is a place where you can explode.  It is a place
where you can speak your mind.  It is a place where you can criticize without
justification, where you can degrade without cause, and where you render
totally arbitrary judgements upon your fellow members of society.

This group is an escape.  Here one can rant, and rave and misspell.  Here one
can abandon protocol and etiquette.  This group is therapy.  If OZ is upset
with what he feels is an unjustified statement, then he is free to
flame about that here in this group.  If he (or anyone else) wants me (or
anyone else) to clarify my statements or justify my opinions or expound upon
my reasoning then he is free to make such a request; however, in my case the
request will (in all likelihood) be ignored within this group, because my
entries in this group are not for the benefit of others, they are not intended
to educate the world, they are intended to help me cope with an increasingly
frustrating environment.

It is true, that we frequently (in what I feel is a misuse of this group)
digress into some meaningful and rational discussion, but I don't feel that
that was the case in the straightforward one sentence fairly pure flame that
generated all this "discussion".  The foregoing statements represent the
views of the author regarding the intent of this group and do not necessarily
represent those of the rest of the net (and frankly I don't give a damn).

                                        feeling better,
                                        Death Rowe
                                        hp-pcd!hp-cvd!mark
                                        Corvallis, Oregon