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From: falk@sun.uucp (Ed Falk)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Abuses of the net
Message-ID: <9516@sun.uucp>
Date: Fri, 21-Nov-86 03:44:16 EST
Article-I.D.: sun.9516
Posted: Fri Nov 21 03:44:16 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 21-Nov-86 07:48:15 EST
References: <225@mind.UUCP> <21023@styx.UUCP>
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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> In article <225@mind.UUCP> harnad@mind.UUCP (Stevan Harnad) writes:
> > Someone using the following name, userid and institution
> > 	"rathmann@brahms.berkeley.EDU (Really Michael Ellis)
> >  	 Organization: 2-3:30PM, tuesdays and thursdays"
> > wrote to sci.lang:
> > 
> > >    you have shit-for-brains... This is all horse manure...
> > >    you are blowing your hot air out the wrong orifice...
> > >    Paperboy wanted to handle Fecal Heights and surrounding vicinity...
> > >    get her ass up here... don't waste your foul breath telling me...
> > >    male chauvinist pricks... but THEY sure as hell left THEIR crap all
> > >    over the place... go shove where the sun doesn't shine... Utter crap.
> > 
> > I find it astonishing that such an obviously disturbed individual has
> > [etc]
> 
> Sigh. The quoted material looked sort of odd there for a while, until
> I realized that Mr. Harnad had merely abstracted the parts that he
> didn't like out of an interesting, lengthy article of 122 lines about
> gender distinctions in natural languages. 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.
> Hardly a disinterested observer.
 
I subscribed to sci.lang just to see what the offending article was.
Mr. Harnad has taken a very informative and interesting article and
quoted it grossly out of context.

I can't believe that in this day and age people are still so uptight about
four-letter words.  Perhaps someone should write a filter for rn that
allows people who are easily offended to have all dirty words pre-screened
for them.

-- 
		-ed falk, sun microsystems
terrorist, cryptography, DES, drugs, cipher, secret, decode, NSA, CIA, NRO.
(The above is food for the NSA line eater.)