| On the Internet, flaming is giving someone a verbal lashing
in public. Often this is on a Usenet newsgroup but it could be on a Web
forum or perhaps even as e-mail with copies to a distribution list. Unless
in response to some rather obvious flamebait, flaming is poor netiquette.
Certain issues tend to provoke emphatically stated responses, but flaming
is often directed at a self-appointed expert rather than at the issues or
information itself and is sometimes directed at unwitting but opinionated
newbies who appear in a newsgroup. |
