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"FTA" <FTA@fake.email> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 06:50:06 GMT, with the help of 10,000 Little
> Computer Monkeys (LCM'S) "Dennis Curtis" <curtisd1@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>
> >> > If i were to have a sig it would be this--" If God were a
> >perfectionist, none of us would be here."
> >> >
> >> Cute, why don't you use it. ^_^
> >
I had pecadillos for dinner tonight. Delicious.
> I'm a Scarred Veteran of numerious Usenet Flame Wars in the mid 90's.
> In those days words were the weapon of choice and some people wielded
> them with lethal effect! I can remember flame wars that lasted for
> months and in a couple of cases years with some newsgroups being reduced
> to battlegrounds where no one posted pics anymore.
🙁
>
> Back then I was a major scanner/poster in several Sci-Fi/Fantasy Pic
> newsgroups until a series of flame wars not only drove me to leave the
> newsgroups I had posted to, and to stop scanning pics, but to also stop
> accessing usenet at all for several years.
🙁 The worse part of those
> final flame wars was the often silence of my friends in those groups
> when I was attacked. I know that they were most likely trying to Not
> Feed the flames, however their silence still hurt. And to be honest,
> back then I wasn't always blameless because I was sometimes quick to
> take offense which did start two or three small wars... Though in my
> defense most of my flame war battles were to support my friends in the
> groups who someone had attacked. Even after finely returning to usenet,
> to this day because of painful memories, I have yet to revisit the
> Sci-Fi/Fantasy Pic newsgroups I once posted to...
🙁
>
> At any rate when I saw the MLK quote I now have in my Sig, it brought
> back memories from numerious flame wars were my friends stayed silent.
> So I doubt that I'll ever find another sig that means more to me or is
> more true when posting to various newsgroups than MLK's quote. ^_^
>
> Take Care! ^_^
Thanks for taking this inna nice and civilised way. I too, joined a few
flame NG's. I still lurk around, and sometimes contribute. Mostly, the flame
NG's are reduced to cheap swearing and all caps, no? I know I've "won" when
my attackee resorts to all caps and not-too-clever swear words. Sometimes
they are witty.
After all, I was on THIS ng less than a week and got plonked twice!!
🙂 Must be doing something right! Heh. I try my best (though not
always), to take people at face value, give lots of latitude, listen for
what they might mean instead of what they say, and be very forgiving. After
all, if you REALLY want to insult someone, it is not hard to do and they
will know it. If i have doubts, I go for the "innocent understanding".
Nevertheless, one cannot avoid the bozos of everyday life. They are like
gold--ya know 'em when you see 'em. All the more reason to subject them to
the acid test. (I am mean at times). I do unnerstand 'netiquette. But i
do expect some tolerance. When it is not forthcoming, I figure they are new
to this game. Not many people even know about newsgroups, BB'S, MUDS,
portals, hubs and other stuff available onna web. Even fewer know the
difference 'tween the web and the net.
You seem to me to be a very smart and rational dude. I thank you for
your patience. I was expecting a minor flame because I used pretentious
words. I apologise for that. Flight of fancy.
Yours is a terrific sig. I welcome every opportunity to be educated by
our great thinkers, no matter the source.
Feel free to Email me at any time.---best regards--dennis
>
>
> That's my 2¢,
>
> FTA
>
>
> "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the
silence of our friends."
>
> -Martin Luther King Jr.
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