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ADVOCACY: How to Survive the Flame Wars (READ ME)

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From: David Baggett
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 03:42
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OK folks, since there's been almost as much bitching about the bitching
as there has been about anything else, I'd like to suggest a minor
modification to our posting behavior that I think will save us all
some grief.  (This will probably seem like an insane fit of
reasonableness on my part to some of you.)

I propose that from now on any message in this group that's 
predominantly about the virtues or flaws of a personal computer (Atari
or otherwise), or about a personal computer company, should have
the word "ADVOCACY" in the the title.  That way people who don't want
to read such posts can kill them, and people who do won't be bothered
by all the annoying bitching about the bitching.  :)

NOTE: This will only work if you do it.  (This means you too, BobR!)  :)
Take care to remove the ADVOCACY keyword from "normal" followups, too,
since some people will immediately kill everything that has even
the SMELL of advocacy in it.  :)

Creating an advocacy group will take at least 6 months.  While I think
it would be a good idea to have one, I'm not about to volunteer to run
the vote.  Could some kind victim ... I mean, volunteer get the courage
up to do it?

Dave Baggett
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From: dmb@case.ai.mit.edu (David Baggett)
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Subject: ADVOCACY: How to Survive the Flame Wars (READ ME)
Date: 12 Jan 1993 03:42:02 GMT
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Keywords: advocacy