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From: merlin@hqda-ai.UUCP (David S. Hayes)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Abuses of the net
Message-ID: <120@hqda-ai.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Nov-86 10:52:58 EST
Article-I.D.: hqda-ai.120
Posted: Fri Nov 21 10:52:58 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 21-Nov-86 20:22:44 EST
References: <225@mind.UUCP>
Organization: Army AI Center, Pentagon
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Summary: Agree with Steve Harnad.



	After reading Steve's original posting (cited in the
references line), I thought it would be obvious to most
people that the sort of language Steve objected to was a
gross violation of net.etiquette.  Now that I've seen a few
days of the followups, I'm astonished that this doesn't seem
clear at all.

	In my opinion, the net does not need or deserve the
sort of traffic that Steve was citing.  Aside from the usual
stuff about making the sender (rathmann@brahms.berkeley.edu)
look like a jerk, it reflects poorly on all the users at
Berkeley.  [What, they allow that kind of stuff out there??]
I won't talk to people who argue like that.  I don't want to
see this stuff on my system.  I certainly don't want to pay
to transport it!  Someone, preferably the SA at
brahms.berkeley, needs to explain the basics of manners to
whoever posted the original.

	I cast my vote for a reasonably polite (not
flame-proof, just polite) net.

	David S. Hayes, The Merlin of Avalon
	US Army Artificial Intelligence Center
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