Xref: utzoo news.admin:1341 news.software.b:972 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!ukma!ukecc!vnend From: vnend@engr.uky.edu (D. V. W. James) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Subject: Re: Re: Novel new idea to stop followups Message-ID: <1845@ukecc.engr.uky.edu> Date: 9 Dec 87 06:24:12 GMT References: <1173@looking.UUCP> <2476@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <2063@isis.UUCP> <19046@bbn.COM> Reply-To: vnend@engr.uky.edu (D. V. W. James) Followup-To: news.admin Organization: Univ. of KY Engineering Computing Center Lines: 20 In article <19046@bbn.COM> jbatson@tron.bbn.com.UUCP (James Batson) writes: >Certainly, the time elapsed until they get to actually draft their >follow up will have it's universal effect of dulling highly emotional >reactions, and maybe the length of flames will decrease given this. >Jay Batson Questionable. If the article made them steam the first time around, re-reading it the secondtime around (while editing out parts for the posting) is likely to rekindle the flames. So all of the emotion of the original would still be there, with whatever effects smoldering for X length of time adds in. It's an interesting idea, but lets *test* it before we implement it. -- Later y'all, Vnend Ignorance is the Mother of Adventure. cbosgd!ukma!ukecc!vnend; vnend@engr.uky.edu; vnend%ukecc.uucp@ukma.BITNET Also: cn0001dj@ukcc.BITNET, Compuserve 73277,1513 and VNEND on GEnie "...the net exists on good faith and a lot of hand waving." Chuq