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From: rdh@sun.uucp (Robert Hartman)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Beach harassment
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Date: Wed, 5-Mar-86 01:01:52 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  5 01:01:52 1986
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>
>But that *is* the question.  That is why I asked for an objective
>standard for harrassment -- not for ``feeling harrassed'' -- but for
>actually harrassing people.
>-- 
>Laura Creighton		

How about: person A did something in such a way that it was reasonable
to conclude (to me and perhaps to others as well) that they intended me 
harm, inconvenience, or upset.  

If I were on a beach and some burly macho sort of woman towered over me in an 
intimidating fashion because I'd rather read than stroke her ego, I'd 
be rather perturbed.  I'd feel that maybe she was trying to make me 'regret'
my poor taste.  I'd merely regret that I forgot to bring along my pet grizzly.
If more of a milquetoast sort clumisly interrupted me twice, and then a
third time to say she was sorry, I'd wish her lots of luck in life.  If
an average sort, made a sort-of-average single-pass, I'd parse the
input, return 0 on stderr, and keep reading my book.

If there were 15 leaflet passers, all from the same group, who were more 
interested in detaining me (in order get my money or attention) than in 
freely speaking, I would begin to get rather combative after the 3rd one.

-bob.