Re: (diffs) FAQ: rec.music.gaffa - Love-Hounds - Kate Bush

[pptjc@vaxk.bton.ac.uk (It's in the trees... It's coming...)]

In article <20644.9404260353@daiches.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, rjc@cogsci.edinburgh.ac.uk writes:
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>[Jorn & Chris off again].
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>Sigh, here we go again. 
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>Ahooora! Ahoooora! Ahoooora! Ego war alert. Abandon Newsgroup. Begin
>emergency LH flame war stimulation measures.
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>	Happy Rhodes, Tori Amos, Bjork, Laurie Anderson.
>	Happy Rhodes, Tori Amos, Bjork, Laurie Anderson.
>	Happy Rhodes, Tori Amos, Bjork, Laurie Anderson.
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>	Where is Gaffa?
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>	What does `get Out of My House' mean?
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>	Does KaTe feed her cats fish? Isn't that evil?
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>--
>rjc@cogsci.ed.ac.uk			_O_
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>>Peter Chow from Brighton (UK) adds:
>> Yes, quite... I've only just joined the newsgroup and the one thing that
>> appealed to me about the idea of it was that text communication should
>> mean an end to discrimination on physical attributes because over a
>> terminal you have none. But looking at the goings on here I see that
>> the Human Nature is ever resourceful and failing discrimination on
>> physical attributes people will discriminate on intellectual and
>> personality attributes.
>> 
>> This kind of attack is far more serious than
>> attacking the shape, size, colour, etc. of a person because those are
>> just the things that make up 'what' you are but to attack someones
>> personality is to attack that which defines 'WHO' you are. The injury
>> caused is compounded by the fact that it IS text communication where
>> the thoughts expressed carry more weight due to the fact that you
>> have to write it rather than just blurt it out in speech which can be
>> done very quickly and regretted instantly. Writing something says that
>> you have considered it and MEAN it.
>>
>> The practice of 'flaming' is disgusting and on a mail system
>> like the one at this University is something that would be enough to
>> get you 'dis-usered' by the computer center.
>>
>> Peter Chow (pptjc@uk.ac.brighton.vms)