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From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: soc.women,news.admin
Subject: Re: I ain't afraid of no Batwoman
Message-ID: <1442@epimass.EPI.COM>
Date: Tue, 25-Aug-87 03:02:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: epimass.1442
Posted: Tue Aug 25 03:02:13 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 26-Aug-87 05:06:57 EDT
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Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA
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Keywords: censorship silencing
Summary: Make my day, Mr. Nobody
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In article <863@hao.UCAR.EDU> woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods) writes:
>While I can understand Valerie Maslak's outrage at Mr. Nobody's suggested
>censorship, surely we can see that censoring him would be just as bad
>as what he suggested we do to Cheryl? I certainly don't approve of what
>he said, and I also think Cheryl's oft-expressed anger is pretty hard to
>take no matter HOW justified it may be, but I do NOT think EITHER of
>them should be refused access to the net solely for those reasons
>(which are, admittedly, only my personal opinions anyway).

Action (extremely severe action) should be taken against anyone
implementing Mr. Nobody's suggestion (what he suggested was a
mechanism for preventing Cheryl from posting to the net at all, and
he was specific as to how to do it).  He did more than express an
opinion; he gave specific instructions for a form of net sabotage.
As a backbone admin, Greg, I think you should be more pissed off
about this than you seem to be.  Especially when you stop to think
that a different name could be used instead.  Instead, you equate
his offensiveness with that of Cheryl.

I'm not in favor of a big hunt to seek out and destroy Mr.  Nobody; I
doubt if it can be done anyway.  But I warn any clever young dweeb at
a topologically important site against implementing the suggestion;
word will get out -- we'll notice the cutoff and we WILL track it
down.  After we find the guilty party, we'll send Cheryl his name and
address, along with a brand new pair of bolt cutters.  Then we'll see
who's not afraid of the Batwoman!  :-) 
-- 
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