At 12:09 AM 4/18/97 Time, Ki'var wrote:

David M Lerman <mdlerma2@gsbpop.uchicago.edu> wrote:
DL> At 11:11 AM 4/16/97 -0600, Chris Davies wrote:
DL>   <Batch of undiluted nonsense deleted>
DL> 
DL>  Mr. Davies,
DL> 
DL>     Robert Morrison delivered an opinion. It was what most readers would
DL> consider an extreme view, but he expressed it as a personal opinion

and he

DL> expressed it politely.  I see no cause for you to have written such a

rude

DL> reply. If you always have such savage responses when confronted with an
DL> opinion which you disagree with, then I suggest an intense study of the
DL> works of Miss Manners.  Hopefully, your reply was merely a reaction to

som

DL> personal stress.  
DL>

I suggest you and others like you either get a real life or stick to posting
on AOL.

       Robert Morrison got exactly what he had coming to him.



                         End Of Story.

   No, it's not. Your reply exemplifies the rudeness and lack of manners
increasingly prevalent on the net.  You speak of my character when you are
ignorant of it.  You apparently serve as a far better example of an AOL.
But I do thank you for demonstrating so convincingly the advantages of
civility. 
   On a historical note, I am an old-timer who was on the net long before
AOL or the other major ISPs were around.  I've seen flaming change from its
use as a funny often absurdist form of parody to nasty adhominem attacks by
those unwilling or incapable of formulating a reasoned and measured
argument.  Not exactly among the cultural advantages we anticipated from
the growth of the Internet.  

                                                                    dml