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- From: gil@tillage.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Constructive Posts and Bells of Hope
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <728019462snx@tillage.DIALix.oz.au>
- References: <18115@umd5.umd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 03:37:42 GMT
- Organization: STAFF STRATEGIES - Anthropologists & Training Agents
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- In article <18115@umd5.umd.edu> rich@astro.umd.edu writes:
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- > I would like to join a constructive conversation on sci.environment.
- > Unfortunately the most common posters in this newsgroup have no
- > manners.
-
- Yes, isn't it sad. In between the activists routinely flaming all with
- which they find an ideological dispute, and the plagiarists feeling so
- free to challenge angrily all and sundry for information on the cheap
- when they are themselves just too damn lazy to do their own field work,
- and I must add the odd fruitcake of a lurker waiting to pounce suddenly
- on some inane irrelevancy, it can get very difficult indeed to sustain
- a constructive debate here.
-
- > Can anyone post here how to create a kill file for authors using the
- > "rn" newsreader? I realize that this is a bit off-topic, and might
- > be better asked in "comp.unix.questions", but this is the only
- > newsgroup out of many that I read that I feel the need of a kill
- > file for.
-
- Still, I do think kill files are the wimps' answer to the problem. It
- remains that sci.environment is probably one of the most stimulating
- and productive forums available on the Internet, especially tackling as
- it does such a diverse and complex topic.
-
- Perhaps as we proceed a few more of those who wish to engage arguments
- put by others will actually do so substantially from the outset, by
- presenting evidence to support their position within a valid scientific
- discourse, instead of joining together in caucus trying to get the wimps
- (I mean, a fool's vote counts the same as a scientist's or a scholar's,
- doesn't it?) on side and have kill files installed on anyone they don't
- happen to like.
-
- Hang in there.
-
- Gil
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