"Louise Bremner" <dame_zumari@yahoo.com> wrote
> Adam Whyte-Settlar <grawillers@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > "Louise Bremner" <dame_zumari@yahoo.com> wrote
> > > Helen Ramsay <r@hotmail.com> wrote:
 <snip>
> > > > Some of the most fun threads in scs started life as the result of
some
> > > > troll or other crossposting to a dozen groups:)
> > >
> > > How delightful. In the newsgroups I frequent, I'm more used to seeing
> > > vitriolic exchanges,
> >
> > We've never been known to exchange a cross word in scs. The very idea.
>
> Hmmmmm... OK, maybe I can believe in the concept of a whole newsgroup so
> cultured, everyone is courteous to each other, but how do you train
> newcomers--especially those drawn in by a cross-post? And can this
> mysterious effect be transplanted elsewhere? Like here?

Hang around! It's very subtly done through osmosis:)

Cheers,  Helen
hramsay at cogeco dot ca