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From: koreth@twitterpater.Eng.Sun.COM (Steven Grimm)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
Subject: Re: RFC on my "abuse"
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Date: 25 Jun 91 20:18:33 GMT
References: <1991Jun25.154257.7452@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <1991Jun25.173013.3784@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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In <1991Jun25.173013.3784@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
>  Do you ever walk down the street, and as you do so, walk up to each house
>and test the front door to see if they left it open?
....
>  Yet, in effect, this is exactly what you did on the net.

I'd say it was more like walking down the street and knocking on each front
door to see if anyone inside wants to talk to you.  Slightly annoying to the
residents, perhaps, but hardly morally bankrupt -- especially if you know
that there are a large number of people on the street who ARE willing to
talk to you, but you don't know which ones they are.

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