Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!woods
From: woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Too many flames - cut it down?!?
Message-ID: <4561@ncar.ucar.edu>
Date: 3 Oct 89 18:32:47 GMT
References: <10@dynasys.UUCP>
Reply-To: woods@handies.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods)
Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR, Boulder CO
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In article <10@dynasys.UUCP> jessea@dynasys.UUCP (Jesse W. Asher - Sysadmin.) writes:
>I too have noticed an increase in flaming in a lot of different newsgroups.
>A fews people are making life miserable for the others and, I for one don't
>want to put up with it.  Is there anything we can (should) do?

  The best way to make an idiot go away is to ignore him/her.  Really. People
will stop flaming if they get no response. I confess that I do not practice
what I preach 100% of the time, but the fact that I have human failings does
not invalidate the point. The best way to stop a flamer is: DON'T RESPOND.
Even if you are under personal attack, if the flamer is truly an idiot, 
everyone else will be able to see that too.

--Greg