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Subject: Re: I ain't afraid of no Batwoman
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Date: Wed, 26-Aug-87 19:52:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 26 19:52:00 1987
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In article <863@hao.UCAR.EDU>, woods@hao.UCAR.EDU (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?

While I can understand Greg Woods' desire to be reasonable, surely we can see
that there is a fundamental difference between posting opinions that one
regards as outrageous*, and forging messages anonymously suggesting sabotage
of another person's postings and thereby sabotaging the cooperative venture
that is USENET? **

Different opinions I can live with.  Destructive turkeys I can live without.

* It has (probably) been years since I've read a message by Cheryl, and I
don't know whether I would be outraged by anything she has said.  It doesn't
matter, anyway.

** It has been pointed out many times that messages are forgable, "Mr. Nobody"
gets no points for being helpful on that score.  USENET is easy enough to
flood with useless crap when people have their names on articles.  Turkeys who
escape even this faint psychological responsibility for their own actions can
only doom us all.

--
John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (617) 626-1101
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