Re: Open mouth, insert foot

["William T. Lee" <leew@wadsworth.org>]

Is it relevant (or even appropriate) to ask someone their age when they
post? I guess it would be neat if we could card people before determining
the validity of their email musings.

Bill (hey, I'll be 40 in a month - what is the cut-off? ;-) 

>When the discussion started, someone made the mistake of asking  Mr.Chin
>how old he was. That set off a tirade of insults and written abuse, calling
>people   impotent etc.This was all from Mr.Chin. If he caught some flak it
>was because people responded to being insulted . I know you're so high and
>mighty that you "removed" yourself from the fray, but if you hadn't, you
>would have seen that that initial letter where the diplomatic Mr.Chin
>called every body who disagreed with him "lameheads", was the catalyst for
>this "anal" flame festival...