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From: pjg@urth.acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul Graham)
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Subject: Re: warning: scumbags using usenet for pyramid schemes
Message-ID: <13526@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Date: 19 Nov 89 03:13:16 GMT
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In-reply-to: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)


In <667@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> Steve Elias writes:
 i respectfully request that all sysadms expire the article that our
 associate at VLSI (Harish) has posted in [various places]

In article <1989Nov19.004703.16570@rpi.edu>, David C Lawrence responds:
 I respectfully resond, "no".  Voltaire's _Essay_on_Tolerance_ springs
 to mind.  Though I dislike the referenced article very much (in spite
 of my empty wallet) I will not censor it.

to which i say YOW!

i zorched the offender here and wish that steve hadn't included the
text of it in his posting.  if you want to leave it on your system
fine, do so.  but please don't bring up *censorship* or tolerance or
the 1st amendment or any of the rest of that tripe.  it *doesn't*
apply.  but despite that many people will immediately take keyboard in
hand and insist loudly that it does apply and that the constitution
assures them of rights on usenet that they have nowhere else.  if you
point out the folly of their ways they will suggest that facts don't
matter.  as is typical of the zealot and demagogue.
--
excess in defense of liberty is no crime -- hitler?  nah, some american.