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From: cyoes@wilkins.iaims.bcm.tmc.edu (Cissy Yoes)
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Subject: Re: New Book in Computer Ethics
Keywords: Ethics, Professional Standards:
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Date: 20 Aug 90 16:41:25 GMT
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In article <519@roo.UUCP>, mark@parc.xerox.com (Mark Weiser) writes:
|> In article <3264@gara.une.oz.au> pmorriso@gara.une.oz.au (Perry
Morrison MATH) writes:
|> 
|> >I understand that his prospects at an
|> >Australian institution were recently thwarted and I can only surmise that 
|> >this has something to do with it.
|> 
|> >Perry Morrison
|> 
|> At least the original comments were about the book, not the people.
|> I don't find the above form of argumentation to be in good taste.
|> -mark
|> --
|> Spoken: Mark Weiser 	ARPA:	weiser@xerox.com	Phone: +1-415-494-4406

I agree!  Personal vendettas should not be carried out at the expense
of the users of this news group.  

Professional standards are important, and each of us must accept responsibility
for modeling them in our personal behavior.

Cissy Yoes
Information Technology program
Baylor College of Medicine
cyoes@bcm.tmc.edu