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From: jeffw@midas.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Abuses of the net
Message-ID: <881@midas.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Nov-86 15:51:47 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 24 15:51:47 1986
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References: <225@mind.UUCP> <120@hqda-ai.UUCP>
Reply-To: jeffw@midas.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
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In article <120@hqda-ai.UUCP> merlin@hqda-ai.UUCP (David S. Hayes) writes:

>	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.

I'm astonished that some people think a few four letter words are
worth the fuss, or "indications of a borderline personality".

>	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.

Are there really people out there who are so dense that they imagine
material sent from a place is reviewed and agreed upon by all people
at that place, so one individual's posting has *anything* at all to do
with what anyone else at that place thinks? I won't talk to people that
argue like *that*! (Hence this posting in lieu of mail. :-))

>	US Army Artificial Intelligence Center

I *won't* say it. I'm so polite. :-)

			Jeff (disclaimers for the careless) Winslow