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To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (92048)	11/10/1999 3:05:00 AM
From: exhon2004	Respond to of 186894

TWY re >>Ali - a philosophical question for you. If you were in a forest and a tree fell and HIT you on the head, would you feel it???<< At last! a vaccine to silence that twit businessweek.com@@7MYsEmYA5xRxLgEA/premium/99_46/c3655052.htm Silencing Chat-Room Boors Ever wish someone would take care of that boor who keeps flaming the online discussion group? Well, Roger Smith, a programmer who makes shareware in his spare time, has created bulletin board management software with a 'twit' feature to keep online rantings under control. How? The software, dubbed Arrow, lets a bulletin-board moderator mark disruptive members as twits. The flame is then automatically sent back to the twit--but not to anyone else. So it looks like the posting is seen by the whole group when only the twit sees it. It's preferable, say moderators, to an outright ban, which can prompt a twit to keep writing under a new name. Michael Thompson, moderator of the Rock & Roll Machine site and discussion list, says he recently twitted one foul-mouthed fellow who kept sending messages wondering where everybody was. He eventually abandoned the discussion group. Smith is now considering a feature that would forward twit messages to all of a list's other designated twits. 'This would allow the twits to fight it out among themselves without bothering the rest of the list's members,' he said. Serves them right. By Roy Furchgott SI! Are you listening? Regards, Greg