[Air-l] Flame Wars

[robert m. tynes]

Eva, thanks for your response, as well as Janne B's and Frank S's.

Eva, you said that you think flame wars, at the level of abusive language,
are fairly rare. And Frank said that sustained name-calling seems to be
more of a Usenet phenomenon and less of a mailing list occurence. Janne
talked a bit about flame wars in the context of "fun" abuse (maybe like
a gaming/entertainment activity?).

Anyone else have a definition or observation that they would like to add?

Why flame?


("To flame, perchance to...")


-Robert Tynes

PS Sorry Eva, Frank, and Janne for paraphrasing and hog-tieing your
points. I tried to be gentle.