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Question About Flame Wars

TS Moderator

2006-08-26, 6:31 am

I am writing an article about Flame Wars. Can anyone tell me some of
the outstanding or longest running flame wars on Google Groups?

Daniel R. Tobias

2006-08-26, 6:35 pm

TS Moderator wrote:
> I am writing an article about Flame Wars. Can anyone tell me some of
> the outstanding or longest running flame wars on Google Groups?

This isn't a "Google Group"; it's a Usenet newsgroup, which is archived
and readable on Google Groups among other places, but which has an
existence independent of and predating the existence of that site.

Some more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaming

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Powerball

2006-08-26, 10:40 pm

TS Moderator wrote:
> I am writing an article about Flame Wars. Can anyone tell me some of
> the outstanding or longest running flame wars on Google Groups?

Only on google ? and in wich language?

Phil Payne

2006-08-27, 6:39 pm

> I am writing an article about Flame Wars. Can anyone tell me some of
> the outstanding or longest running flame wars on Google Groups?

Usenet.

IMO the best flame wars were back in 1995 when Microsoft's Munchkins
and shills were dissing IBM's OS2.

comp.os.os2.advocacy?

Windows 95 was called "Chicago" before release.

IMO those were the best flame wars I have ever seen. I don't know how
much of that material survives, but there were some pretty good guys
involved.

William Tasso

2006-08-29, 6:47 pm

Fleeing from the madness of the http://groups.google.com jungle
TS Moderator <TruckSafety@XXXXXXXXXX> stumbled into news:alt.www.webmaster
and said:

> I am writing an article about Flame Wars.

Been done to death - your favourite search engine will show up thousands
of such things. take a look/see.

> Can anyone tell me some of
> the outstanding or longest running flame wars

Once again - your s/e is your friend. Here's just one ...
http://follies.werewolves.org/archi...meWarAbout.html

o/s advocacy is a good bet.

google maintains a usenet timeline page:
http://www.google.com/googlegroups/...nnounce_20.html

> on Google Groups?

Ahh - no idea really. isn't that just one of many web interfaces to
usenet?

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