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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
Subject: Re: harassing mail
Message-ID: <1991May24.163823.27854@uwasa.fi>
Date: 24 May 91 16:38:23 GMT
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Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
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>In article <1991May23.184642.29771@newshost.anu.edu.au> cmf851@anu.oz.au (Albert Langer) writes:
>>
>>If somebody makes harassing phone calls or writes harassing letters,
>>it is NOT the job of telephone technicians or typewriter mechanics to
>>deal with the problem in any way shape or form.
:

How come people always come up with analogues that first look so
persuasive on the surface, but always have some fatal basic flaw in
their argumentation.  Deliberate nitpicking or serious counter
arguments? (You may pick your own counter-counter arguments starting
from SysOps and SysAdmins are not "mere" technical maintainers). 

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Prof. Timo Salmi
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