Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: 22 Jun 91 04:41:07 GMT From: Fred Heutte Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Well Len, Was it Worth a Prison Term? 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 481, Message 4 of 7 Lines: 23 Townson is entitled to his opinion, but is it really fair to keep tacking it onto the end of everyone else's postings? In my own view, the taunting, condescending tone of his remarks regarding Len Rose's situation is utterly unbecoming the position of *moderator* of a newsgroup. He assures us how "sorry" he is that this happened to Len. Well, I am "sorry" it's apparently a net tradition never to let the facts or a modicum of charity stand in the way of a good rant. Len Rose is going to jail because of some pretty severe "cop trips" in a law enforcement milieu which has just discovered that, by golly, people actually use computers. The prosecution barely understood the issues they tried Rose on; they were basically serving as the muscle for a major corporation which wants to send a message to the rest of us about their notion of property rights. To anyone with an inkling of what this was all about, the entire process and especially the sentencing are totally out of proportion. Let those who live in glass houses not cast the first stones, especially not upon Len Rose.