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From: harnad@mind.UUCP (Stevan Harnad)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Abuses of the net
Message-ID: <228@mind.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Nov-86 03:32:26 EST
Article-I.D.: mind.228
Posted: Fri Nov 21 03:32:26 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 21-Nov-86 05:46:22 EST
References: <225@mind.UUCP> <21023@styx.UUCP>
Organization: Cognitive Science, Princeton University
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Summary: To come

In article <21023@styx.UUCP>, mcb@styx.UUCP (Michael C. Berch) responds
to a sample of scatalogical remarks I had excerpted from a reply I
received in sci.lang as follows:

> I then noticed that the
> person to whom the the quoted remarks were directed were in fact Mr.
> Harnad himself, who seemed to be getting the worse of the argument.
 
Mr Berch should read that posting again, if he has the stomach for it.
He will notice that the worst of it is directed at some other poor
unfortunate rather than myself. Not that it makes any difference.

As to who was getting the worst of the argument, I wouldn't know,
since I do not read such abusive material. The only reason I took the
trouble to excerpt and post the sample was a hope that some negative
publicity might help to curb such abuses, and that others might be
encouraged to take similar steps. As I suggested in a prior reply, I
am not a vigilante or a prude or a spokeseman for the Moral Majority.
I think it's common sense that posting such material shouldn't be
free of consequences, any more than publishing it in a newspaper or
displaying it with a sky-writer would be. There's no reason the net
should allow itself to become a latrine wall for the acting out of a
few borderline personalities.

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