From:	"David M Girardot (Girardot, David)" <GIRARDOT@********.BITNET>
Subject:	Pleas (flame) for a little restraint
Date:	Tue, 27 Oct 92 17:56:39 est

Well I've just about had it. It now takes ten-fifteen minutes to go through
the latest batch of repetitive, flame-ridden posts from this list. Let me tell
you why:

1. People are posting three and four times a day. This has got to stop.
Okay, I formally request that the list.consitution put a hard limit
of two posts a day.

There is no reason why you folks cannot go through the days topics
and post one message that deals with all you want to deal with.

All of these tiny blurbs of "me toos" and rules-arguments are not
only pointless and consume net resources unfairly, but they make
life hard for people like me who cannot generate kill files and
have to delete messages by hand, one by one.

2. People are being unneccessarily reactive. It is not enough to
post a flame and then post an "I'm sorry" or a retraction. If
you must flame, DO IT IN PRIVATE EMAIL.

As far as rules go, it seems like there's an unneccessary amount
of personal comments going on. Can't we respect eachothers opinions
a little more.

And all of this back-and-forth arguing over little points doesn't
help either. If you must do this, take it to private email and
post a summary of the discussion.

3. Finally, this is not the first flame I have written, it is about
the sixth. The first five never reached the list because common
sense kicked in at the last minute and I hit the abort key. I'm
sorry if I've unduly offended those folks who have nothing to
do with this tomfoolery -- but it just seems like people AREN'T
getting the point.


I would appreciate flames be directed to me personally, if you feel they are
necessary. Otherwise, adieu...


--David