Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!math.ksu.edu!tar From: tar@math.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Subject: Re: Canceling someone else's article Message-ID: <1991May31.161031.178@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> Date: 31 May 91 16:10:31 GMT References: <12570@uwm.edu> <1991May29.172400.24035@tygra.Michigan.COM> Sender: news@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (The News Guru) Organization: Kansas State University Lines: 29 Nntp-Posting-Host: hilbert.math.ksu.edu jp@tygra.Michigan.COM (John Palmer) writes: [ I assume this wasn't yet another forgery in your name, John? It's so hard to tell. ] [ ... ] >Thats a shame. Some people just don't know how to handle flamers. If >he got harassing e-mail, he should contact the sender's sysop and the >feed site of the system from which the posting came. >He should respond to his flamers and let them know that he has a RIGHT >to post anything he wants. How do we solve this problem: Post flames >in public newsgroups against the offender and also put him in your >system-wide kill file. Let me try to get this straight. Everyone has the RIGHT to post anything they want, be it legal or illegal. However, no one has the RIGHT to mail anything they want to a particular person. I don't get it. Why does freedom of speech extend to posting but not email? You keep using this word "RIGHT". I do not think it means what you think it means. -- Tim Ramsey/system administrator/tar@math.ksu.edu/(913) 532-6750/2-7004 (FAX) Department of Mathematics, Kansas State University, Manhattan KS 66506-2602