Re: Is anybody else here fed up?

[Robert Rivkin <rrivkin@umbc.edu>]

On 8 Sep 1995, Neil Parker wrote:

> Sigh.  By posting this, I'm breaking a long-standing personal rule of never
> getting involved in any flame war.  But this has gone on too far.
> 
> So...may I please see a show of hands of everybody who thinks the current
> "Dr. Tom" flame war should be taken to e-mail?
> 
> A discussion at this stage can serve no further purpose except to make its
> participants even angrier than they already are, and the rest of us even
> sicker than we already are.
> 
> I mean, sheesh.  Look at the level to which this thing has descended.
> Spelling flames.  You know a discussion is only a step above rock bottom
> when the spelling flames kick in.  (You'll know it's taken that final step
> to rock-bottomness when somebody calls one of the participants a Nazi.)
> 
> I read this newsgroup to keep in touch with what other Apple II users are
> doing with their computers.  I do NOT read it to learn who's angry at whom.
> If person A thinks person B is an idiot, fine, but I really don't want to
> read about it here.
> 
> I call on all comp.sys.apple2 readers to please do your part by NOT
> responding to this post, or to any other post in the current flame war.
> If you do feel compelled to respond, use e-mail.
> 
>               - Neil Parker
> 
> (P.S.  Does anybody know of a way that we can get that ridiculous
> "Micro$loth" thread out of this newsgroup?)
> -- 
> Neil Parker --==-- nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu --==-- nparker@cie.uoregon.edu
> Godwin's Law of Nazi Analogies:  As an online discussion grows longer, the
> probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
>      -- Mike Godwin
> 
> 
I couldn't agree more.  STOP!  Email each other.  Let's talk about Apple 
II topics [real ones] for a change!

Bob Rivkin