🚀 go-pugleaf

Actually, there *is* a newsgroup called alt.flame.  Guess someone else
thought of that, too. :)

Nils and Terri Anderson wrote in message <34B6AD81.63BC@erols.com>...
>Mats Forssblad wrote:
>>
>> Adam Moore wrote:
>> >
>> > In article <34a74c6d.18650425@news.cbl.com.au>,
>> > David Bell <davidb@lin.cbl.com.au> wrote:
>> >
>> > >  American Quake newsgroups??  Then why to hell are there posts here
>> > >from all accross the world?  Hmm?
>> >
>> > Probably 'cause you're a fuckin' moron.  He sent his post to 5 or 6
>> > different NG's.  Which one are you reading it from?  Probably not
>> > git.talk.quake.  You think this only shows up on the NG where you read
it?
>> You got a point. But after a person realizes that there exists more than
>> one newsgroup, what does one do? To me, proper behaviour seems to be that
>> if I read something in alt.games.quake2 , it is alt.games.quake2 and
>> everything should be relevant for alt.games.quake2. I can take no
>> responsibility in, and have no interest in, worrying about if it is
>> crossposted. Also, it would be unethical and bothersome of me to
>> demand anything like that from others.
>
>heheh Im actually kinda sorry to interfere with your incoherant
>chitchat, but I REALLY wanna know how it got from JOIN THIS CLAN to
>NEWSGROUPS: ONLY IN AMERICA!!
>My only word of advice for all of you who actually take the time to read
>this SPAM crap is, if you see a long list of the same subject, and you
>also see it in many different newsgroups, just delete it. First of all
>Im really getting sick of this crap these people are posting to one
>another that adds another few Kbs to my download of the news. I know its
>not a lot, but I want to get straight to what Im looking for without
>garbage that people are putting in to try to respond to a few people. If
>you are really this dedicated in starting a flame war, try one of these
>choices:
>
>1) argue over E-Mail.
>2) argue over ICQ.
>3) start a newsgroup called ALT.GAMES.FLAMEWAR and post yer crap there.
>4) forget it all and just delete the messages that annoy you.
>
>That way, the people with sense (us) can avoid the arguments of people
>who have nothing better to do (you) and go on with our normal lives
>without interferance from flame wars.
>
>Im surprised no one actually suggested this before. Well, now that
>someone has, and this is the last time I hope to enforce this kind of
>thing with common sense (which, obviously, no one who takes the time to
>read crap like flamewars has). And although many of you out there DO
>have common sense, Im sad to say, not much, if you actually argue with
>the idiots who decide to post stuff like that.
>
>So farewell, all you SPAMMERS, and stop the SPAMMING.
>
>Kid