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From: inc@fluke.UUCP (Gary Benson)
Newsgroups: net.admin,net.flame
Subject: Profanity has no place on the net
Message-ID: <117@tpvax.fluke.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-Dec-83 20:32:22 EST
Article-I.D.: tpvax.117
Posted: Mon Dec  5 20:32:22 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 9-Dec-83 06:11:26 EST
References: <4259@uiucdcs.UUCP> <648@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Everett, Wash
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Mr. ssc-vax!jobe, I don't know who you are, or why you are so angry,
but I would like to remind you that profanity is severely frowned upon when
posting articles to this public information interchange.

I think that your employer, the Boeing Airplane company, probably does not
condone such wanton and flambuoyant misuse of this quite expensive tool,
either. I have posted this article to net.admin as well as to the
newsgroup net.flame where your missive appeared, in an effort to remind
system adminsitrators that at least some of us who read the news, gossips,
jokes, et al., are concerned about being exposed to this kind of blatant,
vituperative garbage. I feel that they have at least some responsibility
in this regard.

If you are *that* angry about something you read on your computer
terminal, perhaps you could press your 'r' key, rather than 'f', and
subject all of us to your rage. Yes, it was net.flame, but I have never
read such a lot of gutter language all in one place in, oh, just ages. 

Thank you.


Gary Benson
John Fluke Mfg. Co.
Everett, WA, USA

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