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From: ooblick@mit-eddie.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: Usenet account "termination with extreme prejudice"
Message-ID: <7075@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 4-Oct-87 13:16:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: eddie.7075
Posted: Sun Oct  4 13:16:50 1987
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Reply-To: ooblick@eddie.MIT.EDU (Mikki Barry)
Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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In article <8710030525.AA25406@garnet.berkeley.edu> gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu () writes:

>   I personally suspect you are talking through your hat. The
>mit@eddie people never did clarify exactly why they tossed
>Foothead off; all I know is that *I* did not suggest it to them.

Untrue Gene, dahlink.  One mit-eddie person posted to news.sysadmin
that she examined footface's account and found "scripts used for
forging news and mail".  Any idiot could have seen that the scripts
were actually to allow access to the account to two other people
named in the scripts (neither of whom was Ken Arndt).  This fact
was known to the person giving fh the account.

My personal opinion is that expression of ideas in this forum should
be free to all.  Not just to those whose opinion is "acceptable".
Campaigns to eliminate net-access to people we don't like or don't
agree with can later backfire.  I can't name ONE sysop I would like
to see as king/queen/dictator who should decide what is and is not
offensive and who shall and shall not use the net.

Except, of course, me :-)

Mikki Barry
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