Xref: utzoo news.groups:15178 misc.headlines:11926 talk.politics.misc:38243 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!spaf From: spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.groups,misc.headlines,talk.politics.misc Subject: Re: YUPPIES, QUEERS and BEAN COUNTERS Message-ID: <8767@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Date: 29 Nov 89 06:01:43 GMT References: Sender: news@cs.purdue.EDU Reply-To: spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) Followup-To: news.groups Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University Lines: 35 If any of you are still wondering why I recommended deleting misc.headlines.unitex instead of just unmoderating it, maybe the base article this is following up helps to clarify matters. I believe it to be a breach of etiquette and applicable law to publish electronic correspondance without permission, so you'll have to take my word on it that Dr. Waldron has mailed a number of equally....unusual... messages to me, Chuq, Patt Harring, the sysadmin at ccny, and others about this episode. Some have been considerably more strident and at times vulgar. One to Patt was quite threatening. One to me was quite insulting (personally). And at least one mail message about Patt could be grounds for a lawsuit if fixed on paper. I have suggested to Dr. Waldron that perhaps he doesn't understand how best to communicate with others electronically. He then posted the article to which this is a follow-up. Sigh. It's hard to give someone the benefit of the doubt when they persist in being so obnoxious. May I suggest that we not encourage him by debating this further, here or elsewhere on the net? Coincidence department: someone has pointed out to me that Dr. Waldron is posting from a machine at Rutgers, the same great institution that provided us with Prof. Bob Webber for a while. I don't believe that is a reflection on Rutgers itself -- it still doesn't outweight the fact that Mel Pleasant and Chuck Hedrick also post from Rutgers, and a good friend of mine is on the faculty there. Still, it does make one wonder what's in the water there.... -- Gene Spafford NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004 Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com