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From: rcj@clyde.UUCP
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Subject: Oh, come on!!
Message-ID: <9692@clyde.ATT.COM>
Date: Wed, 27-May-87 08:03:25 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 27 08:03:25 1987
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Reply-To: rcj@moss.ATT.COM (Curtis Jackson)
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Damn, people!
Almost every legal contract I have ever seen in the US requires a notarized
signature.  Mark Ethan Smith, by sheer virtue of the fact that she got accounts
on BBS and USENET systems by claiming she was Mark Ethan Smith (which she has
admitted she ain't), has shown enough breach of faith to be kicked off of any
system.  There are many sysops (myself included) who are very active in the
women's movement but who wouldn't ever give an account to someone who
masqueraded as the opposite sex.  This isn't discrimination against women;
it's discrimination against assholes trying to stir up trouble.  How many
of you would have given an account to Foothead if you'd known ahead of time
what she/he/it was going to do?

Let this idiot either buy a system of her own (*shudder*) or find a sysop
sympathetic to her net.needs and net.wants HONESTLY AND OPENLY; until then
can we try to talk about something useful here?  I unsubscribed to soc.women
lately for a reason, and that reason was not to have soc.women discussions
moved to this newsgroup!!

The following paragraph has nothing to do with my opinions above, except
that thinking about it helped me to get the impetus to post this article:

A colleague of mine recently mailed me a suspicion as to the real identity
of Mark, and what he suggested made a lot of sense, would explain a lot of
things (would explain her writing style *perfectly*, for instance), and would
make me even more convinced from long experience that this person is nothing
but a deliberate trouble-maker and attention hound.  Long-time net.women
readers, think about it.

The MAD Programmer -- 201-386-4295 (Cornet 232)
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