Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!world!bzs From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Anonymous postings Message-ID: Date: 13 Jan 91 22:33:51 GMT References: <1991Jan7.190403.9267@alphalpha.com> <1991Jan09.175609.6303@looking.on.ca> <40305@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <10129@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <11705@goofy.Apple.COM> <1991Jan13.215158.12795@ux1. Sender: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) Organization: The World Lines: 29 In-Reply-To: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu's message of 13 Jan 91 21:51:58 GMT >IMHO, merely subscribing and reading the alt.* newsgroups is not >sexual harassment. However, displaying "sexy" notes that a coworker >finds offensive is harassment (and quite rude). For example, taking a >note that someone finds offensive and making it the message of the >day, or posting it to the local general newsgroup, or e-mailing it to >the offendable person, or reading it loudly, or printing it out and >pinning it up, etc. are examples of harassment. Note that such >actions are harassment regardless of were the material comes from. >-- >Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Yes, I'm comfortable enough with that since the implication is that an employee took a specific action (msg of the day, re-posting) and it's that specific action which is being questioned, not the mere existence or availability of the materiels. It's sort of like saying owning a baseball bat is fine, but hitting other employees with them is unacceptable. The problems arise when someone outlaws baseball bats on the possibility that someone might hit someone else. It is precisely that claim to read another's intent that gets our rights into trouble. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | {xylogics,uunet}!world!bzs | bzs@world.std.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 617-739-0202 | Login: 617-739-WRLD