Cause of flame wars - from wired

[agpage]

I saw this in Wired today, and I thought it was good reading for any fourm. The best quote from the story was:

Those who sent the messages predicted that nearly 80 percent of the time their partners would correctly interpret the tone. In fact the recipients got it right just over 50 percent of the time.

The whole article can be found at:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70179-0.html

Andrew Page

[PaulC]

Andrew, That's a great article. My choice for the best quote would have to be the following--

"E-mail is very easy to misinterpret, which not only triggers flame wars but lots of litigation,"

Cheers
Paul

[Nitetimes]

People write absolutely, incredibly stupid things in company e-mails," said Flynn.

No kidding?

I think that's my favorite line.