[Buddha-l] Is this guy an, er, budding bodhisattva of IT?

[Michael Paris]

Richard,

In fairness, not all Usenet groups are like that. Quite a few,
yes, but some are quite sane and sensible.

As a rule, the religion and belief groups (of all sorts) tend to
have more spam, garbage, and bizarre arguments. Others (e.g.,
rec.knives) are populated with decent folks out to have good
conversation.

It all depends....

Thanks for the mention of Patricia Wallace's book.


Michael

--- Richard Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu> wrote:

> James's apt comment brought back memories of when I descended
into the hell realms of news groups about ten years ago. There
used to be (maybe still is) a news group called
talk.religion.buddhism. Being accustomed to the civilized tone
that has always prevailed on buddha-l, I
was unprepared for the breathtakingly nasty vituperation on
talk.religion.buddhism, where never was heard an encouraging
word. 
[snip]
>


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