[snogglethorpe]

> I prefer Linus style - he at least gives the reasons why something is bad idea, why he won't accept some patches etc.

Yeah. Basically, when Linus flames somebody, the "mean words" are decoration. They don't actually form the meat of the message, which is almost always technical and detailed. If you had an email filter which deleted all nasty words, you'd still get very useful information from one of Linus's flames.