[Air-l] Re: Flame Wars

Christian Nelson cnelson at comm.umass.edu
Sat Jan 12 12:55:07 PST 2002


Re: my inquiry about the origins of using "flame" for labeling an angry, etc.
post Mickey Waxman wrote:

> [...] So that's the legend, I think:  Comic book, <Flame On>, Flames, Flaming,
> Flame Wars.

> Does that help?

Who cares if it helps--its beautiful. If it isn't right it should be! Of course,
if anyone can add any historical documentation for Mickey's suggestion, I'd love
to hear of it.
Cheers,
Christian Nelson





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