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From: Vintage Computer GAWD! <foo(a)siconic.com
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Sent: Monday, May 29, 2000 7:51 PM
Subject: Re: Get up on the wrong side of the bed this
morning? [Was: Re:Noteson repa...
On Sat, 27 May 2000, Marvin wrote:
> > > In article <392DD40E.D9E6982D(a)rain.org>rg>, Marvin
<marvin(a)rain.org> writes
> > > >How about dropping this particular
thread or
taking it to email. Starting
> > > >this kind of a flame war here
doesn't do
anyone any good.
>
> > Are you sure about that? If a flame war is over
the proper way to
> > repair computers, and people learn from it,
is
that such a bad thing?
> > Are people so politically correct and
thin-skinned these days that
> > their fragile psyches can't tolerate a
little
flame-fest?
> What makes you think a flame war is an effective
way to learn? A game
perhaps, but
learning???
I suppose it's one way of trying to justify a
personality flaw?
I would have said "manifest" a
personality flaw.