>> By Gum, young people these days don't know what a flamewar is.
>
>No, they have never seen me in such a case. IMO, there has never been a
>really serious flame war on this list. There has been some extremely
>determined flicking of lighters, but no real flame war, where people
>hunker down into serious and well determined positions, and are so
>seriously torqued that the are willing to devote the next ten years of
>their life to turning their adversary into widely dispersed and highly
>ionized atoms and electrons.
Hehehehe, well, some of the personal mail that Al and I used to get was a
lot like that, about other people on the list. We just used to threaten
people with excommunication, it worked most of the time. Despite the
problems of the past, it never ceases to amaze me how civil people on this
list are to one another, generally speaking, despite every provocation in
the world to act contrary to this.
Regards, Andrew
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Andrew Boyd - andrew at pcug.org.au - http://www.pcug.org.au/~andrew
"In my day, we didn't have fancy health-food restaurants. Every day we
ate lots of easily recognizable animal parts, along with potatoes
drenched in melted fat from those animals. And we're all as strong as
AAGGKK-GAAK Urrgh. Thud." (Tom Witte, Gaithersburg)