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From: kissell@flairvax.UUCP (Kevin Kissell)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: referencing material off the net. - (nf)
Message-ID: <286@flairvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Dec-83 13:50:12 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  9 13:50:12 1983
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"I, for one, would like to keep any flames I have off someone's
paper.  I would feel less free in my opinions if I knew it would
haunt me later in some publication.  Do people really WANT their
articles referenced?  I can see from net.unix-wizards, perhaps, but
from net.jokes and net.flame also?  Dare I bring up the BLKTRAN
problem.  From the resulting discussion, having the person haunted
with that article later on could hurt his/her career."

			smk@linus.UUCP (Steven M. Kramer)
			(See, it's happening already!)

Precisely.  Electronic mail is arguably private, but anything posted
to a network at large is rather obviously in the public domain, and will
propagate in ways that I rather doubt any of us can predict. 
Perhaps the more mindlessly vociferous flamers on the net will recognize
a need for a little self-control. 

		Kevin D. Kissell
		Fairchild R&D Labs,
		Advanced Processor Development
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