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From: root@hobbes.UUCP (John Plocher)
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Subject: Re: I ain't afraid of no Batwoman
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Date: Wed, 31-Dec-69 18:59:59 EDT
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+---- Valerie Maslak writes in <6086@sri-unix.ARPA> ----
| I continue to insist that administrators follow up
| and find out who Mr. Nobody is, and take appropriate disciplinary
| action. I leave it to the concensus of the net.gods as to what that
| should be.
+----

Valerie, Cheryl, Mr. Nobody, et al;

  Why don't we all take a step back and put some sanity in this discussion?
Everyone has the right to express and promote their opinions.  Everyone.
What they don't have the right to do is force their opinions on others.  There
is a fine line between the two.

  Mr Nobody has the right to suggest whatever he wants, just as Valerie has the
right to voice her views.  But for either of them to force their views on others
is WRONG!

  What *I* think is that the net should BOTH ignore Mr. Nobody's request for
Cheryl's newsfeeds to be cut off AND ignore Valerie's request for retaliation.
This way, if there are errors made by either side they won't result in
disruption of the net for either party.  (For a fictional view of this
situation, read Isaac Asimov's Foundations Edge, Chapter 20, part 5 (p 422))

  It is much better to be lenient and forgiving and let some wrongs get by than
it is to be judgmental and arrogant and punish one who did no wrong.

  If you wish to ignore me, that's all right, too.
  
  Just don't flame to the net; use email instead.
-- 
John Plocher uwvax!geowhiz!uwspan!plocher  plocher%uwspan.UUCP@uwvax.CS.WISC.EDU