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"Put on your asbestos suits and start the FLAMING!"

Quote of the Day

"I am a big fat idiot. I should have never linked to this site. It was a mistake to spend all night on google searches. I should have gone to bed. I should have put down the bourbon. My deepest apologies. --Tanya Hsu."

Flaming is an artform!

"When you do it - do it right - or don't."

This motto should be applied to anything, really, but if you feel like flaming somebody on Usenet then please do it right. Take some time. Please do not be boring. Thankyou.

The History of the NancyBoys

Robin Socha and Sven Guckes had been collecting helpful hints and presenting them as webpages for readers of comp.mail.pine for quite some time, posting the addresses and the hints over and over again to comp.mail.pine.

But they saw that there were many people not following those hints, but asking FAQs all the time. The "nice way" obviously did not work.

So they decided that it was about time to flame some of them, and to point out that questions were FAQs.

In March 1999 Sven set up a mailing list. Actually, this was just a pseudo address that distributed the mails to Robin, Sven, Ken, and Adam.

After seeing some flames by Kate they asked her to join. (June 1999)

Sven knew that Felix also enjoyed flaming lusers a lot, so Felix joined in July 1999.

In July 1999 this list moved onto kens.com and the name was decided upon as "nancyboys". So the group known as the "NancyBoys" was born!

This name refers to Nancy McGough who is known for helping people on the Net, especially on the newsgroup comp.mail.pine, - although very very nicely. ;-)

The NancyBoys do what Nancy would never do - flame the lusers.

The NancyBoys in Person

Here they are with their own views on the matter:

Sven Guckes kraut@kens.com: http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/flaming/
Adam H. Kerman ahk@chinet.com: No home page.
Felix "Fefe" von Leitner fefe@fefe.de: http://fefe.de/; http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~leitner/
Catherine "Kate" McMillan hazelisafatdrunkslobandinsanelyjealousofkate@katewerk.com: http://www.kens.com/~kate/; http://www.katewerk.com/~kate/flamewars.html [991022]; Kate's Ten Good reason to Use Pine
Robin S. Socha robin@socha.net: http://socha.net/; Collected quotes on Robin:; http://socha.net/war.html
Ken Woods kwoods@kens.com: http://www.kens.com/

NancyBoys Rookies

Yong S. Yi ysyi@async.org

http://async.org/~ysyi/

http://async.org/~ysyi/bananarchy.html

"I am generally a VERY nice person to deal with. However, when
posts like this come up, the good side of me does not come out."

[Captain Spiff and his death ray blaster]

Toast!

Here is the list of "toasted" idiots and lusers:

amc@muc.de
Michael Longval MD mlongval@geocities.com: Evaluation of his post; Unnecessary use of quoted-printable, full quote, signature before citation, signature without sigdashes.

Flame Guide

Whatever you do - avoid smileys and abbreviations like "SCNR" ("sorry, could not resist"). (the temptation to make such a silly remark). (This is just for "Warmduscher". This is a Kraut thing - you are not supposed to understand this.)

[Kenny and Knife] Remember: Make sure you will hit don't miss! When flaming then do not leave any remnants behind! Make it hurt!

Remember, old articles never die

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers From: linley@netcom.com (Bruce James Robert Linley) Message-ID: <linleyEqrHrK.A6x@netcom.com> Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 01:06:56 GMT Remember, old articles never die. They end up at dejanews or similar where they sit for all eternity. How much longer until Time/Life comes out with a "Usenet articles of the 80s/90s DVD-ROM"? :) "Relive the classic flame wars" "Laugh at the newgroup/rmgroup wars" "Marvel at classic Usenet bondoogles such as Dick Depew and ARMM" "See why they call fall '94, 'the year that September never ended.'" "Cower when you realize how many of your own stupid earlier posts are included for all the world to see." "Discover the great Usenet 'burp'" "And see how 6 ASCII characters (.cabal) brought much of Usenet to a halt." "All this for only $199.95. Minimum system requirements: Power A.M.Pentrix IV Alpha @ 3.5GHz, 1 TeraByte RAM, 800 GB disk space, 12 Layer/64 speed DVD-ROM and Windows NT 5.0(*) or Linux (Kernel 6.6.6 or later) (*) May not be available by press time. -- Bruce James Robert Linley | +---+---+--_ | "Tea is always bitter... but linley@netcom.com | | |NV | UT | blood is warm and sweet." Programmer, Fortunet Inc. | \ CA \ |___ | Las Vegas, Nevada, USA ----------> \*| AZ | - Miyu [No one can prove I did that!]

Links

Quotes

Kate McMillan in email [991130]:

> Robin - did you make her do it?
Robin doesn't make me do anything.
Robin is *my* servant.

Robin Socha on comp.mail.pine [990730]:

Lusers are dead meat. People like Sven, Ken,
Felix et al put the *kill* in killfile.

"Never explain. Never apologise." -- Jacky Fisher (British Admiral)

"Humanize war? You might as well talk about humanizing hell!" -- Jacky Fisher (British Admiral)

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