Fourteen ways in which you can avoid starting a flame war on a Debian mailing list

On an IRC brainstorming on what talk I should give at FOSDEM, liw suggested:

"Fourteen ways in which you can avoid starting a flame war on a Debian mailing list".

In the end I went for something more technical, but I've never stopped thinking about liw's challenge.

I ended up writing talk notes about such a potential talk.

Here they are.

The classics

The radicals

The radicals, applied selectively

The From tricks

The naggers

The conscience ticklers

The subtle

The subtle, 1 week later