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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,news.misc
Subject: Re: How do I delete certain (harming) files?
Message-ID: <1989Sep12.031136.2207@twwells.com>
Date: 12 Sep 89 03:11:36 GMT
References: <3141@draak.cs.vu.nl> <1989Sep5.025248.15909@twwells.com> <112@zircon.UUCP>
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In article <112@zircon.UUCP> meadley@cell.mot.COM (A. Meadley) writes:
: In article <1989Sep5.025248.15909@twwells.com>, bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) writes:
: > In article <3141@draak.cs.vu.nl> ollie@gov.secret.usa (Col. Oliver North) writes:
: > Actually, you are ollie@cs.vu.nl. That was a most clumsy forgery.
: >
: > Your postmaster will hear of this. Along with the postmasters of vu.nl
:
: Tell you what. Why not take him out, hang, draw and quarter him and
: then perhaps you could even burn him at the stake.
:
: How does that sound to you?  No?  Too liberal?
: Oh, well - nevermind then.  I would have used a smiley, but is this
: a joke?

There will always be the immature, of whatever age, that think that
purposelessly violating law or custom is funny.

Too bad, but it appears that you are one of them.

Do yourself a favor and list three good reasons why such postings are
harmful. There are actually more than that, but the mere effort on
your part to find just three might do you some good.

No, don't ask me to do it for you. If you can't figure the reasons, it
will take much more than a few words on a screen to teach them to you.
And I'm not in the business of teaching kindergarten ethics.

Followups have been directed to alt.flame.

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