"Clayton E. Cramer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tim Lambert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 9:36 AM > Subject: Re: Gun Statistics Expert John Lott Victim of Identity Theft > > > > By "chat room" Lott is referring to Usenet, and, yes, Google Groups > > lets you search Usenet. Even if Lott is counting emails as part of > > the discussion, it still is not credible. Almost all responses are > > posted, and emails tend to be more polite, since there is no point in > > grandstanding.
> If this were true for Lott, it would be the only time in the history > of USENET that the email was more polite than the stuff in the > newsgroups--and much of what gets posted in talk.politics.guns is > incredibly rude. While the antigun crowd is far more rude in > talk.politics.guns than the progun side, there are plenty of > examples on both sides that are embarrassing. The problem is that you don't seem to notice the rudeness from the pro-gunners. The last time we discussed this you had pointed to a posting where the pro-gunners had been far more rude and described it as an example of rudeness of antigun folks. -- Tim
