begin quoting David Brown as of Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 08:55:01PM -0700: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 06:10:58PM -0700, SJS wrote: > >begin quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] as of Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 06:04:54PM > >-0700: > >[snip] > >>SJS doesn't like GPL so therefore you *must* be wrong. > >> > >>QED > > > >Welcome to my killfile. > > Do people really use killfiles like this? In my mailinglist career, I can > think of one or two incidents that really warranted a killfile, and it > really needed to be thread based because the persons posts generated so > many replies that I could read all of their messages anyway. > > Most of the time, it seems more the equivalent of sticking your fingers in > your ears and singing loudly. I guess there are a few times where that is > an appropriate response in person, but it isn't common.
The best way to avoid flamewars is to killfile when the personal attacks start. Or you just play that game until the other person loses their temper, and spend time devising varied and/or obnoxious insults. -- Some days, it's just not worth the trouble. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
