Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdahl!ihnp4!ihlpg!apeed
From: apeed@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Andrew B. Peed)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: What a bunch of ...
Summary: Flame bait, flame bait!!!
Message-ID: <4498@ihlpg.ATT.COM>
Date: 17 Dec 87 01:44:16 GMT
References: <3179@psuvax1.psu.edu>
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In article <3179@psuvax1.psu.edu>, matt@psuhcx (Matt Cohen) writes:
> What a bunch of idiots on this newsgroup!! All that seems to be on 
> here is drivel about drugs, sex, and WHINING , whining and moaning.
> Why don't you people wake up and focus your attention on something 
> important like solving your own (obviously) myriad and complicated
> problems???
> 
> Matt "you must be Joe King" Cohen
  [cutesy "cursive" signature deleted]

   Ladies and gentlemen, I give you...

a alt.flame.virgin!!!

   or, at least, a close facsimile thereof...

   I'll explain it in as simple a manner as I can, a la net.ask.Mr.Rodgers:
On the net, flame does not mean fire; flame means bitch, moan, ridicule, 
insult, curse, denounce, and generally make nasty comments which may or may 
not be substantiated.

   Can you say substantiated?
   No, I did'nt think so.

   The two preceeding lines of text are a mild, oblique flame. Flames of this 
type are relatively rare. Some flames take the tone of the following:

   Listen up, fuckhead. Just because you think you have your shit together 
does'nt give you the right to flounce your ass into netland and make a public
announcement to a bunch of people who really don't give a damn. You want 
serious conversation? Go to the newsgroup which covers the topic of your 
choice. If there is'nt a newsgroup which covers the ins and outs of 
do-it-yourself child pornography, well, then, it would appear that you're out
of luck. Go home. Get hit by a truck on the way, while you're at it.

   This sort of flame is known as incendiary. Its primary purpose is to get
you too mad to reason, so that you obliterate the flamer's e-mail address
with equally inflammatory text, or so that you can hunt him down with the 
help of directory assistance and make obscene phone calls to him/her. The
flamer may then offer to sue you. Whether he/she/it actually does is left to
you to sweat about. (Side note: people actually offer to sue are often 
ridiculed completely out of alt.flame and into some weird alternate reality.)

    Well. I'm certainly not going to take it upon myself to hog your 
instruction. I've said enough for one posting. Any other would-be professors
of flammage out there?

  
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