Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois) Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.religion Subject: Re: Proposal for net.religion subgroups Message-ID: <429@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 2-Nov-84 16:47:07 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.429 Posted: Fri Nov 2 16:47:07 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Nov-84 19:03:10 EST References: <187@hocsj.UUCP> Organization: UW Primate Center Lines: 16 Xrefs: uwmacc net.news.group:352 net.religion:945 > > Needless to say, net etiquette would dictate *not* attempting to proselytize > in other religions' subgroups. (And needless to say, people would do it > anyway.) It would probably be difficult to refrain from this, because inevitably in the discussion of one religion, one will compare it with one's own, possibly different, religion. And the definition of "proselytize" is sufficiently broad for some people that any mention of, say, Christianity, constitutes proselytization. A similar phenomenon may be seen on this net in connection with the word "flame". This term is often applied indiscriminately to any response not agreeing with one's own viewpoint. And surely, simple disagreement need not constitute "flaming"? -- Paul DuBois {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois