Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!well!pokey From: pokey@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Too many flames - cut it down?!? Message-ID: <13924@well.UUCP> Date: 3 Oct 89 20:13:29 GMT References: <4561@ncar.ucar.edu> Reply-To: Jef PoskanzerOrganization: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric, Ada Lovelace Cabal Lines: 27 In the referenced message, woods@handies.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods) wrote: }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. Except for all the other idiots, who will proceed to post followups. I find that a polite e-mailed form letter gets good results. For instance, here's the one I'm currently using on the idiots who post non-source to alt.sources: Please don't post stuff like this to alt.sources. The proper newsgroup for discussion is alt.sources.d. Posting non-source articles to alt.sources is very impolite, since many people attempt to archive it automatically and they don't want non-source articles. I suggest you cancel your article immediately. I just took a look in my control newsgroup, and found eleven cancels for alt.sources. Not bad. Andrew Beals has a nice collection of form letters for other occasions. Write to him (bandy@well.sf.ca.us) if you're interested. --- Jef Jef Poskanzer pokey@well.sf.ca.us {ucbvax, apple, hplabs}!well!pokey Yow! Are we interfacing yet?