Is anybody else here fed up?

[nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu (Neil Parker)]

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