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To: epicure who wrote (32341)	12/5/2006 11:47:47 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541518

Fortunately the great mass of SI posters are pretty good people. There is a microscopic fringe on the right and the left who thrive on misbehaving and dress it up as a righteous crusade; since they cling together, they can foul a thread pretty quickly. But until I see their Subjectmarks and Peoplemarks in the top 50 lists SI runs, I will remain convinced they are a screeching, impotent fringe, getting off on their own rage for whatever weird reasons they have. They are the Fox News/Air America of SI, the sidelined 1% of partisan junkies.

To: epicure who wrote (32341)	12/6/2006 7:12:42 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Respond to of 541518

When you call people names, when you fight with people, when you are nasty, people WILL avoid you. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, and even supposed analysts on FOX cable network business programs openly talk about killing their enemies as if killing people was a casual every day activity. When did advocating killing people become acceptable? There are an awful lot of people who get all their news from these people. There is no middle ground in all this nasty stuff. What is the equivalent nastiness coming from the left? Keith Oberman?

To: epicure who wrote (32341)	12/6/2006 9:43:32 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541518

One of the odder things about all this is that for listservs that occur among folk who meet one another in face to face interactions you still get some of this. If you assume all of us display a range of public selves rather than just one, it looks as if some folk only display somewhat nasty selves in listserv postings. But expect no negative consequences when they meet folk, in face to face interactions, whom they've attacked on the listserv. Computer, keyboards, and listservs can produce some odd behaviors and odder consequences.