Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1991 23:12 MST From: LARRY RIBA Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Taking an Agressive Stance With Harassing Callers Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 267, Message 3 of 11 Lines: 30 In , Randy Borow (rborow@bcm1a09.attmail. com) writes: > BTW, it was revealed that the reason this guy had been bugging me was > because he "cared for" my friend so much. Huh? My friend was 25, this > guy was 50ish! I think he was of a "different persuasion," shall I > say. Geez, I sure picked a winner down there on campus. (You should > have seen the judge's reaction to this!) Would it have mattered less to you if the calls were being made by a 20-year-old female? Are you suggesting that older gay people are more likely to harass others via the telephone? Perhaps the moral of your story is that it doesn't pay to socialize with those of a "different persuasion." I fail to see how these ageist and homophobic comments relate to the harassing calls. Larry Riba | University of Colorado at Boulder | Boulder, CO 80309-0530 Internet : riba_l@cubldr.colorado.edu | voice +1 303 628 6924 [Moderator's Note: I did not interpret his 'guy was 50-ish' remark as what you term ageist. I took it to mean he thought the guy should have been a bit more mature -- at his age -- than to seek pleasure from playing games with his telephone. I think he was saying he fully expected to find a much younger person responsible. PAT]