From eric.gade at gmail.com Tue Sep 10 15:42:06 2013 From: eric.gade at gmail.com (Eric Gade) Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 18:42:06 -0400 Subject: [ih] All Time Greatest Flames? Message-ID: Something about electronic messaging lends itself to posting compulsive, emotional, and flippant responses. Obviously that's something that in general hasn't changed. What do any of you remember about some of the all time best examples of these? I'm looking for anything from pre-1995 emails, USENET posts, what have you. And if it's not too controversial, who were some of the most devastating wielders of this skill? -- Eric -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From braden at isi.edu Wed Sep 11 13:19:55 2013 From: braden at isi.edu (Bob Braden) Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 13:19:55 -0700 Subject: [ih] All time greatest flames In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5230D06B.4050009@isi.edu> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 18:42:06 -0400 From: Eric Gade Subject: [ih] All Time Greatest Flames? To: internet-history at postel.org Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Something about electronic messaging lends itself to posting compulsive, emotional, and flippant responses. Obviously that's something that in general hasn't changed. What do any of you remember about some of the all time best examples of these? I'm looking for anything from pre-1995 emails, USENET posts, what have you. And if it's not too controversial, who were some of the most devastating wielders of this skill? This may not be exactly what you want, but Jon Postel was an acknowledged master of the sly put-down,. as well as his pithy comments. Bob Braden From eric.gade at gmail.com Tue Sep 24 11:52:58 2013 From: eric.gade at gmail.com (Eric Gade) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:52:58 -0400 Subject: [ih] Has Flaming Changed? Message-ID: Turns out I'm going to be whipping up an article on this topic. I'm hoping to grab some thoughts from the community. Do any of you think that the nature of flaming has changed much -- perhaps because of things like Facebook and Twitter? Or does flaming happen essentially the same way, with the same passion, but merely in newer applications? Send me all of your thoughts. -- Eric -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: