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From: cjs@po.CWRU.Edu (Christopher J. Seline)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: CWRU student prevented from teaching how to send ethernet packets
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Date: 27 Feb 91 14:47:31 GMT
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I was originally going to sit out for a few days and take the deserved heat
for bringing this up in an international forum; unfortunently, Rob has libeled
me and I'll take a moment to respond.

In a previous article, knauer@cs.uiuc.edu (Rob Knauerhase) says:
>Chris, there is nothin wrong with the free flow of information.  However, I
>think you and I (as well as the cwru.ins.general readership) know that you
>didn't post that innocently.  Your post was (my opinion) calculated not to
>educate, but to infuriate the Information Network Services people at Case.
Nope.  Please don't tell me what I was thinking.  

I wrote a program that puts packets on ethernet and takes responce packets 
off; the idea that my (or any) program could be modified to send n+1 packets
(swamping our 100M FDDI fiber backbone) scared them; my program didn't do 
that -- but it (And any other program) could be modified to do so.


>    A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, and in that respect this fellow
>is dangerous.  His pranks have included instigating personal attacks and
>playing with reply-to fields and so forth to harass the staff and directorship
>of Information Network Services.  I urge you to ignore his request to further
>annoy these people.
Nope.  I've repeatedly posted (in a local board for discussion) my oppinion
(based on 15 years in the field) that our local computer administration is
inappropriately restricting knowledge and interfering in people's research;
I've also stated that the computer administration is out of touch and that
they innapropriately ignore the advice and comments of faculty/staff/and grad
students (as well as UnderGrads).  I've further compared their management to
how I managed things when I was root (at another fine institution).  



I'D LIKE TO APOLOGIZE TO EVERYONE WHO HAS BEEN BOTHERED BY THE WHOLE
THING.  I INTENDED TO SIT THIS OUT AND TAKE MY DESERVED LUMPS BUT THIS
LIBEL NEEDED A RESPONCE.