Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!bbncca!jbray From: jbray@bbncca.ARPA (James Bray) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Re: How to handle Bear baiters Message-ID: <269@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Sat, 5-Nov-83 21:27:56 EST Article-I.D.: bbncca.269 Posted: Sat Nov 5 21:27:56 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 8-Nov-83 04:51:39 EST References: <767@ritcv.UUCP> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 10 I'm afraid I have to disagree with you there. Judging both by the pristine silence emanating from the source of the loathsome interjection to which I retorted with such vitriolic pleasure, the author of which has hopefully had the decency to dash out onto the runway and get sucked into the engine of a nice new 767, or at least to find another newsgroup to insult and defame, and also by the several responses I got thanking me for dealing with the situation, I would say that it was a sucessful action. Note that this sort of thing has happened before but generally been met by silence, which appears not to have served as an effective deterrent; perhaps the promise of swift and vicious