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From: gary@dgcad.SV.DG.COM (Gary Bridgewater)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: warning: scumbags using usenet for pyramid schemes
Message-ID: <1229@svx.SV.DG.COM>
Date: 20 Nov 89 08:50:13 GMT
References: <15389@vlsisj.VLSI.COM> <667@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> <1989Nov19.004703.16570@rpi.edu>
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In article <1989Nov19.004703.16570@rpi.edu> tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes:
>In <667@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias) writes:
>Steve> i respectfully request that all sysadms expire the article that our
>Steve> associate at VLSI (Harish) has posted in misc.misc,misc.invest,alt.fax.
>
>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.

Let me see if I understand you. A burglar breaks into your house, rifles
your valubles and in a burst of chutzpah sits down at your table and makes
himself a snack.
You return and find him so engaged. Your reaction will be to wax reflective
on Voltaire's _Essay_on_Tolerence_ because, after all, he'd already done all
the illegal stuff before you got there? What's your address?

Chain letters are prohibited by Federal law. Chain posting probably should be
as they pass through wires that are regulated by the Feds. Perhaps we need a
good test case in which some bozo does some hard time. In any case, I am
not a lawyer but I am a sysadmin. I believe chain letter posting of this kind
are the lowest form of net abuse (even so called joke posting) and nothing in
my extremely liberal outlook prevents me from deleting them the instant I
find them - including any followups that quote from them - which in this
case are suspiciously complete. Kick the vermin off the net.
-- 
Gary Bridgewater, Data General Corporation, Sunnyvale California
gary@proa.sv.dg.com or {amdahl,aeras,amdcad}!dgcad.SV.DG.COM!gary
Shaken but not stirred.