IRC snippet...

[denny]

[muttley] TeeJay: you're forgetting the "most people are cocks" axiom again
[muttley] a mailing list is like a giant fresnel lense for such cocks
[muttley] a massive ego magnifier for tiny penised pedants and social malcontents who have nothing better to do than try and assert some sort of pathetic authority via the medium of 7bit ascii

Comments

[katishna.livejournal.com]

wow. replace "mailing list" with "lj community" or "web forum" or just about any other group online in any form and you're still ringing true. I remember when flamewars were fairly rare and only on usenet. *sigh* Now gimme my cane and my false teeth.

[lusercop.livejournal.com]

Not mentioning any Randal L Schwartz. You will notice that I am conspicuous by my absence in that discussion. :-)