Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site vax135.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!vax135!cjp From: cjp@vax135.UUCP (Charles Poirier) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Flame, but don\'t shotgun Message-ID: <1125@vax135.UUCP> Date: Sat, 13-Jul-85 02:05:48 EDT Article-I.D.: vax135.1125 Posted: Sat Jul 13 02:05:48 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 15:19:39 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 18 I am a bit perturbed at the recent suggestion that flames about people's inappropriate postings *should* be cross-posted to groups that the offender is more likely to read than net.flame. I want to encourage people to never cross-post from net.flame. One of the justifications for having a net.flame is to insulate other groups from having to read non-group-related material. To hit everyone in a group with non-information directed mainly at one person is something I think most net users consider annoying (to put it mildly). The way to be sure that someone gets your hate mail is to send him *mail*. Does it make sense to post flames to protect the purity of your favorite non-flame newsgroup *in* that newsgroup? (No.) When you just *have* to nail someone publicly, please confine it to net.flame and send the sucker mail to make sure he reads the article. From the bed of nails of Charles Poirier (decvax, ucbvax, ihnp4)!vax135!cjp