Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: AMillar@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Industry Ethics (Was: Telecom Humour) Message-ID: <12688@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 26 Sep 90 07:06:46 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 44 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 685, Message 8 of 10 In , write: > Which lead to: >Come on, Pat, lighten up. It's going to happen. It happens in ALL >areas. Some of the computer labs I have worked in DELIGHTED in >sending messages to novice users' screens. Similarly to the phone >I guess my point is, do you expect this industry to be free from this >sort of behaviour? I don't. And the topper: >Hmmm, I can only hope our Moderator is not one of those outspoken, >righteous No-Can-Do-Wrongs who society later uncovers as having an >unspeakable miasma of heretical beliefs and a past full of unameable >criminal acts against nature and the law. 8^o >What sort of chaotic little secrets do you hide that the net can't yet >see... ? ;-) Now, anyone who posts a controversial view is open to flamage, including Pat (and me for this message). And responsibility is always controversial. But I congratulate Pat for taking a stand, and not sitting by siliently. Yes, it is probably true that we can expect these things to happen. But no way should we condone them! We should all lighten up when it comes to fraud or perhaps incest because these things too are just GOING to happen, right? But wait, those are serious, and we're only talking about harmless pranks. Calling a person of a particular ethnic background a derogatory name is all in good fun; can't they take a joke? "It's going to happen anyways" is a cop-out. If you don't take a stand against unethical behaviour, then you are supporting it BY DEFAULT. Alan Millar AMillar@cup.portal.com