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flame

Angry public or private e-mail or other message. Users of the Internet use flames to express disapproval of breaches of netiquette or the voicing of an unpopular opinion. An offensive message posted to, for example, a bulletin board, will cause those offended to flame the culprit. Such flames maintain a level of discipline among the Internet's users.



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He saved our boats and homes from going up in flames," said Pamela Hetrick who lives on the creek and whose new boat was in the path of the flames.
The Middle East is going up in flames, the Catholic Church is unraveling, we are at war in Afghanistan, global warming caused an ice shelf the size of Rhode Island to crumble, the AIDS epidemic in Africa gets worse by the hour, and you send us a magazine with "The Prejudice Against Country People" as the cover story?
Forests that had never burned in recorded history were going up in flames.
 
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