No flamefest here; was: Agencies/markup/etc. (kinda long)

[Mike Starr <writstar -at- WI -dot- NET>]

Anyone who follows both this list and misc.writing knows that techwr-l is a
model of decorum in comparison.

Mike
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> From: Donald T. Robertson <drobertson -at- nm-us -dot- campus -dot- mci -dot- net>
> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.techwr-l
> Subject: Re[2]: Agencies/markup/etc. (kinda long)
> Date: Tuesday, May 20, 1997 9:51 PM
>
> I wrote:
>
> > I don't know if you were a subscriber then, but a few months ago,
> > there were many messages about how this list tended to be less
> > tolerant, and more prone to barbequing posters, than most other
> > listservs.  I actually didn't think it was all that bad until I
> > started reading those posts.
>
> And Arlen Walker wrote in response:
>
> >That's a topic (techwr-l flames too much) that comes up periodically,
and
> >though you're welcome to your opinion on it, I think it's bunk.
>
> That last sentence I wrote, that's NOT what I meant to say AT ALL.  Man,
> did I screw that up!!
>
> I did not then, and do not now, think that this list is prone to flame
> wars.  I've actually seen people get REALLY fried on other lists.  I have
> yet to see anyone genuinely get barbequed on this listserv.  It's pretty
> tame compared some others.
>
> What I meant to say, and let's hope I get it right this time, is that I
> never noticed a tendency toward excess heat--I just never paid any
> attention because I didn't have any reason to.  The posts claiming that
> techwr-l flames a lot encouraged me to pay attention.  I did, and I
didn't
> see what I would've called an increased tendency to flame fellow posters.
> There were some list members several months ago that started to get very
> impatient with seeing the same threads rear their ugly heads over and
over
> again, mostly because (as I recall) we had a lot of newbies join over a
> short period of time and they didn't know to check the archive.  But, I
> don't recall anyone getting toasted, though I believe that several people
> took umbrage at some of the things that were written.
>
> This *lack* of evidence that techwr-l is a flame-prone list is what
> prompted me to state my case about task- vs people-oriented individuals
in
> the first place.  To reiterate:  Techwr-l is not flame-prone, not in my
> opinion (and Arlen's too, evidently).  What I think I see happening is
> simply some predominantly task-oriented individuals coming across as
highly
> critical, maybe even intolerant, to some predominantly people-oriented
> individuals because these two types of social styles have very different
> ways of expressing themselves.
>
> I hope I've made my position clear this time.  I obviously didn't last
> time; I should've been more careful.
>
> Don R.
>
>
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>
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