[sumo] Trouble in River City?

[Barbara]

That's absolutely the best advice.  Private emails sent to the flamer 
asking him/her to stop are the best weapon.  Polite but disapproving emails.
Barbara Murasakihana

marcslists at gmail.com wrote:
> I'd like to add this admonition.
> 
> The ONLY effective response to a flame is silence.  In any flame war,
> much of the useless traffic turns out to be objections to the war!
> And flamers feed on responses.  Any responses.
> 
> So silence silence silence.  I know it's hard - but it's the only way.
> 
> (Of course, direct responses to the flamer are your business, not the lists).
> 
> And as always - thanks Joe for all the sumomail.