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From: kaleb@fedora.x.org (Kaleb KEITHLEY)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Put the Cannons Away: Vote YES on newsgroup reformation.
Date: 17 Feb 95 12:35:53 GMT
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jcargill@grilled.cs.wisc.edu (Jon Cargille) writes:

>I offer no comment on the rest of the flamewar other than to agree
>with Jordan: why doesn't everyone get back to useful work instead...  ;-)

I could not agree more; except, and not to be argumentative, but
I don't consider it to have been a flame war. An extended discussion
yes, a flame war no. It would have had to have gotten a lot nastier
to have been a flame war. People are so quick to put the "flame" label
on anything even slightly over the bar of everyday "conversation." I
suppose that's what comes from having articles about flames in magazines 
like Time and The New Yorker -- everyone who has ever read about a
flame or a flame war wants to see one. If you want to see real flames, 
read alt.flame!

The voting period ended yesterday, and soon we'll know the results, and 
no matter what the outcome is I'm done with it. If it lost, c'est la vie;
someone else go do battle with Usenet, David Lawrence, and the Group
Advice Guru gaggle in six months time.

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Kaleb KEITHLEY