Chatham Chatlist Highlights

Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:56:24 -0400
From: Gary Simpson
Subject: Vive la Chatlist!

Ah, the Chatham Chatlist. It’s often an enigma both to those who give it but a passing glance, or those who hang on its every word. A source of information exchange it is, but, oh, so much more. Poking around the Chatlist is somewhat akin to that blindfolded fella feeling around an elephant. It leaves plenty of room for interpreting what it is that you are feeling at any given time (from adoration to abomination and everything in between).

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:16:06 -0500
From: John Dixon
Subject: RE: Flea problems…Did you know?

Regarding the impotence of Frontline and other spot treatments – my vet has told me they’ve long since started seeing ‘breaks’ in the spot treatments (parasites are becoming tolerant of the chemical) and switched my dog to Comfortis. It’s a prescription treatment, but an appointment wasn’t necessary – we just stopped by the vet and picked some up. Within an hour of giving my dog the medication, fleas were falling off him, dead. I bathed him a day later and they were all gone. It works on fleas and ticks. Single dose lasts a month.

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:52:19 -0400
From: CrYpTiK
Subject: Re: Deborah Bair re: Sarah Shook

Deborah, I’ve noticed that pounding people repeatedly for pretty much any perceived infraction, however minor it happens to be, is a common trend on any Internet forum, and there’s only one solution: if you don’t like it, ignore it.  These people are known as “trolls” and to reply in any way is to “feed the trolls.”  Any reply, good or bad, is an invitation for further heated commentary.  Get two or more opposing trolls and you have a “flame war.”  Judging by Sarah Shook’s reply directly beneath your own, a flame war is precisely where this thing is headed, and if we don’t give these posts the dignity of a response, they eventually won’t have anything else to troll or flame about.

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