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From: mvp@hsv3.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Fool
Message-ID: <5627@hsv3.UUCP>
Date: 6 Nov 90 03:08:51 GMT
References: <18667@rpp386.cactus.org> <1990Nov2.191240.4568@lavaca.uh.edu> <18684@rpp386.cactus.org> <1990Nov3.193714.4223@lavaca.uh.edu> <1990Nov4.031734.19127@com50.c2s.mn.org>
Reply-To: mvp@hsv3.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt)
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In article <1990Nov4.031734.19127@com50.c2s.mn.org> craig@com50.c2s.mn.org (Craig Wilson) writes:
>... there is just no way for one person (or side) to WIN.  ... we have
>not developed a graceful way to extricate oneself from such a feud with
>honor.

Not for the participants, perhaps, but there's a way for the innocent
bystanders to "make the fight not exist."  KILL files.

>Perhaps, some sort of "prosecution" of the combatants is needed? 

/haugh/a:j  will exterminate all sides of this nonsense.  (Alas, like
the loser in a Wild West gunfight, John's sensible articles will bite
the dust, too.)

>Of course, that implies a central authority,

Nope.  Each individual can set his/her own threshold of loss of patience.

-- 
Mike Van Pelt          | What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth?
Headland Technology    | Judging from realistic simulations involving a
(was: Video Seven)     | sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we
...ames!vsi1!v7fs1!mvp | can assume it will be pretty bad. -- Dave Barry