[sllug-members]: When did SLLUG turn into SlashDot?

[Josh Coates]

> > Does this happen often?  I thought that this list was mostly 
> > professionals and university students in the Salt Lake area who were old

> > enough to know better.  I hate to add fuel to the fire, but can anybody 
> > tell me if this will happen again?  25 messages in such a short 
> > timespan...  I may decide to unsubscribe if this recurs frequently.  One

> > can only speculate at the motivations (and corporate affiliations?) of 
> > those who needlessly provoke.

whoa.  sorry for disrupting your fragile mailing list.

but let me at least get this straight - 

i'm not allowed to make an economic argument or to propose that there aren't
valid reasons for certain consumer behavior?

and if i do, a bunch of people come out of the woodwork and start a flame
war and get all huffy about personal attacks?  

and then a bunch more come out and start complaining about heated
discussions on a - wait - what's this?  SLLUG is a linux mailing list??  one
of those things where progressive technologist get together to discuss all
things technology and they might not all agree on everything and they might
actually have dialogs?  

whoa - i didn't sign up for that!  i thought this was the
happy-everyone-always-agrees-and-drinks-the-same-koolaide mailing list.  get
me out of here!

maybe it's a utah thing - i guess i should get in line with the rest of the
sheep.  ;-)

again, apologies.

cheers,

-josh

-----Original Message-----
From: sllug-members-bounces at sllug.org
[mailto:sllug-members-bounces at sllug.org] On Behalf Of Corey Edwards
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 8:06 PM
To: sllug-members at sllug.org
Subject: Re: [sllug-members]: When did SLLUG turn into SlashDot?

On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 17:16 -0700, Marc Christensen wrote:
> Mike Bourgeous wrote:
> > Does this happen often?  I thought that this list was mostly 
> > professionals and university students in the Salt Lake area who were old

> > enough to know better.  I hate to add fuel to the fire, but can anybody 
> > tell me if this will happen again?  25 messages in such a short 
> > timespan...  I may decide to unsubscribe if this recurs frequently.  One

> > can only speculate at the motivations (and corporate affiliations?) of 
> > those who needlessly provoke.
> 
> I think this is the first flame-war we have had in a few years. 
> Usually, if people want a flame war, they end up going to the PLUG list

Ooh, I'm so totally going to make derisive comments about you on #utah
for that.

Corey


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