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From: jim@ccd700.UUCP (prototype account)
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Subject: Re: Reply to 'Update #2 on technical travel to Nicaragua'
Message-ID: <437@ccd700.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 9-Jul-86 14:44:52 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  9 14:44:52 1986
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References: <3968@decwrl.DEC.COM> <2144@hammer.UUCP>
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Summary: People who live in glass houses ...

In article <2144@hammer.UUCP>, patcl@hammer.UUCP writes:
> In article <3968@decwrl.DEC.COM> cmullen@gold.dec.com (Cynthia Mullen, at DTN 297-4818) writes:
> >Recently someone from tecNICA has again started recruiting volunteers for
> >Nicaragua, on many addresses on USENET....
> >I'm disgusted. By disregarding the outcry against politicizing USENET,
> >these Nicaraguan supporters are doing just what their political comrades...
> [continues with further ravings about Nicaraguan Communists plotting to
> take our Precious Bodily Fluids, or something to that effect]
> 
> If you're so concerned about politicizing USENET, why did you
> post this puerile diatribe? If we can put up with headhunters
> essentially having free use of the net for profit, surely solicitation
> of volunteers by a non-profit organization is permissible.

I think the point (albeit somewhat convoluted) of Ms. Mullen's article
was that it's OK to politicize, provided you do it in the proper
newsgroups. However, after making this valid point, she proceded to
violate it by politicizing a totally apolitical newsgroup!

Perhaps she should have posted to net.puerile-diatribe, or something
functionally equivalent.

Jim Sitek

"If there's one thing worse than being talked about, it's not being
talked about."
					Oscar Wilde as portrayed by
					Graham Chapman