From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3e08c98d7ce85399 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk (Aidan Skinner) Subject: Re: Kindness Date: 1999/09/05 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 521370209 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: skinner.demon.co.uk:158.152.76.219 References: <37CC6844.AB898EEE@rational.com> <37CE93CD.799A225A@pwfl.com> <37CF0FE0.2B299477@acenet.com.au> <7qood6$h3f$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <37D279EA.E7679A70@acenet.com.au> X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 936552393 nnrp-02:26783 NO-IDENT skinner.demon.co.uk:158.152.76.219 Organization: None User-Agent: slrn/0.9.5.4 (UNIX) Reply-To: aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-09-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 06 Sep 1999 00:10:50 +1000, Geoff Bull wrote: >An important point for me is that rudeness is NEVER acceptable. >(even though I can hand a good deal of it myself, inadvertantly True, although I've yet to see the same level of rudeness here that occurs in other newsgroups (even some of the more "civilised" places like uk.net.config, sci.crypt can get *very* vicious at times). There's practically none of the ad hominem attacks, personal fights and out and out flame wars that characterise usenet these days[1][2]. - Aidan [1] When I were a lad... ;) [2] Death of the net imminent, film at 11. -- http://www.skinner.demon.co.uk/aidan/ http://www.gla.ac.uk/Clubs/WebSoc/~9704075s/ What evil shall I do today?