Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC830713); site vu44.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!vu44!jack 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 Article-I.D.: vu44.422 Posted: Thu Oct 11 14:17:56 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Oct-84 01:47:27 EDT References: <160@grendel.UUCP> Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam Lines: 25 [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