Posting Flame mail causes MORE Flame-mail (Score 1)

Aside from the fact of how unprofessional it is for a company like Mindcraft to post these kind of emails on their website, it also creates another problem.

Anyone who is familiar with dealing with this kind of negativity knows rule #1 when dealing with lamers: Do not acknowledge their efforts, because it only keeps them going.

By posting these emails, Mindcraft is encouraging
people of this type to continue to assault Mindcraft with hate-mail in the hopes of getting their mail posted on their site. This in turn creates more negative publicity for Linux. In a way you almost have to wonder just a little bit whether that was the point.

Regardless, acknowledging this kind of childish behavior does no good. Posting it to slashdot makes it far worse. While Rob's "SERMON" may enlighten a small few, this posting will more likely encourage more linux fanatics (the type that cause these types of bad press) to continue to assault Mindcraft , Microsoft, etc in this manner, because, "Hey, if I bash them enuff, mebbe I can geet mentioned on /. ". I think Rob should think about that before putting another news item of this type.