Amen!!
Richard in SA
On Thu, 14 Jan 1999 02:17:16 PST Michael Clark
<markiiidakota@hotmail.com> writes:
>
>After 3 hours getting cought up on the last few days dml traffic --er
>I
>mean flames, I cought myself remenissing <sp?> umm, thinking back, to
>the good old days of the DML when I first subscribed to the list. I
>guess it was about 2 1/2 years ago (man time flies!) But back then i
>think we only had around 200 members. 40 messages per day (heavy day)
>
>no group purchases, webrings, or dml meets --(that was the bad part of
>
>it)-- But none of us back then knew what a flame was besides
>something
>you cooked BBQ with. I was so proud of the DML then, I'd always
>comment
>to my F-body friend about how great the guys were on my list when he'd
>
>tell me of all the flame and junk on his list.
>
>It's great we have more members, and the DML is still made up of some
>of
>the greatest people around. And I still feel that you would be hard
>pressed to find a better list-group-organization than the DML. But we
>
>should all try and keep flames down for the good of the list. I can
>see
>snapping at some one occasionally, but I think we should adopt a
>standing policy that any new flame that goes over 2 or 3 posts should
>be
>automaticaly transfered to private email. I mean normally 99.9% of
>the
>members don't care to read someone elses arguments. It reminds me of
>Jerry Springer (without the fights every 5 seconds). Why someone
>wants
>to go on national television and argue a personal matter with someone
>else is beyond me. (ok so they get a free plane ride and hotel..) So
>what do you say guys, lets try and clean this list up and get it back
>up
>to the standards that I (and I'm sure a few others) remember.
>
>And just a suggestion that's for the list as a whole... Before you
>send
>out a comment kinda look it over and see if it's gonna piss someone
>off.
>Add in some BWAHAHAHAHA's or ;-)'s or "just kidding" or something.
>Maybe an anti-flametory statement, like the mandatory Dak content
>thing?....
>
>Anti-Flametory statement:
>This is NOT directed at any one person, it's a general post to all on
>the list. Read it in a good natured tone for that's how I wrote it.
>if
>any of it makes you mad then I must have typed it wrong, it should
>make
>you think though...
>
>
>---Mike (I miss the old list) Clark near Houston.---
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>
>
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