I come from newsgroups on Usenet in the old days. Sort of funny
about how I can talk about the old days of 1993 as The Dawn of Time
but that's pretty much what it was.

And from the beginning one of the worst places I know about
was wi.general... that's Wisconsin General on Usenet. It was
so bad I made a new newsgroup for up here where I live called
wi.northeastern.talk. Not as much traffic, but no a**holes either.

Welllll, there's _one_ clown that posts from Japan who is way off base and crossposts to wi.northeastern.talk for some arcane reason.

That's Usenet. I still use newsgroups but not as much as I used
to. On some of them there is real community.

"any flames will be crushed like a ciggy butt, just like elsewhere on AA...."

LOL.

Although my latest tangle on AA wasn't about this at all, it's not even worth explaining what Romy the Cat gets up to.

Bill

Lessee, I was given some excellent advice/perspective at that time by Doc B (keeper of one of the most civilized places on the virtual planet!) via private email. It went something like:

Never mud wrestle with a pig. Inevitably, you'll feel disgusted and filthy, and he'll be lovin' it the whole time! You have to figure the intelligent, rational people in the crowd know who's who and what's what, and who cares what the rest think . . . . . .

;-)