On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 08:01:50AM -0500, Dan Fabulich wrote:
>
> You know what? I haven't had to read one word of this debate. Not one
> solitary phrase.
>
> You know how? I didn't even use a killfile. I just read the subject
> lines, used my good sense, and skipped what I wasn't interested in.
> That's my normal mode of operation on this list, and it's served me well
> for years now.
Bollocks, Dan.
This gun flamefest broke out on a completely unrelated topic -- and the
participants were rude enough _not_ to change the subject. Thus completely
killing the topic previously under discussion, by making it impossible
to separate the gun postings from the relevent ones.
> As I've said before, it requires a fundamental belief in your own
> importance relative to others' to think that just because YOU'RE not
> interested in what somebody's talking about, they shouldn't be discussing
> it.
I dunno about you, but I consider my time to be important enough that
when other people thoughtlessly waste it I get annoyed with them. As
I said in my original explosion, if they want to take it off-list, or
onto a separate topic, I don't mind. What I _do_ mind is idiots who
can't change the subject line. It's sheer thoughtless rudeness, and
you should know better than to defend it.
-- Charlie
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