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Article #23325ADVOCACY: How to Survive the Flame Wars (READ ME)
From: David Baggett
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 03:42
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 -- dmb@ai.mit.edu MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ADVENTIONS: interactive fiction (text adventures) for the 90's! dmb@ai.mit.edu *** Compu$erve: 76440,2671 *** GEnie: ADVENTIONS
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!gatech!enterpoop.mit.edu!mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!ai-lab!case!dmb From: dmb@case.ai.mit.edu (David Baggett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: ADVOCACY: How to Survive the Flame Wars (READ ME) Date: 12 Jan 1993 03:42:02 GMT Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Lines: 28 Message-ID: <1itemaINN6bq@life.ai.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: case.ai.mit.edu Keywords: advocacy