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From: jack@vu44.UUCP (Jack Jansen)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Flaming being studied at CMU
Message-ID: <422@vu44.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Oct-84 14:17:56 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 11 14:17:56 1984
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[I'm a poor lonesome superuser, far away from /]
The same article appeared in a Dutch newspaper (de Volkskrant of
sat 6 oct, in 'het vervolg'). Last monday we had a discussion
about it, and we reached the conclusion that it could be caused
by the way you post news or mail.
When you talk to someone, you can see or hear him, so you know
how he reacts to what you say.
When you write a letter, you sit down for it, think carefully
what you want to say, and then write it down.
On the other hand, when you post an article, you say

RRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!,
jump onto your desk, start pounding at your keyboard, type
control-d, and then sink back into your chair.
This can also be noted from the fact that news contains an
awful lot of typos and incorrect syntactical constructions (this
sounds like one, I think), which is in fact quite funny, since
someone who speaks COBOL, LISP, APL and CSH can be expected to
be reasonable in English.

Does this sound as a reasonable explanation? No? Well, send
me flames, and I'll promise to send you some back.

	Jack Jansen, {seismo|philabs|decvax}!mcvax!vu44!jack
	or				       ...!vu44!htsa!jack