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From: varol@mcvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Silly threats. Was Re: UUCP - USSR
Message-ID: <7460@boring.cwi.nl>
Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 04:15:17 EST
Article-I.D.: boring.7460
Posted: Fri Oct 30 04:15:17 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 1-Nov-87 07:38:19 EST
References: <875@cod.NOSC.MIL> <8710280303.AA01116@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <1987Oct29.123647.13632@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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Summary: Yes Tom, you're right...

In article <1987Oct29.123647.13632@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> molnar@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Tom Molnar) writes:
>
>In article <8710280303.AA01116@bu-cs.BU.EDU> bzs@BU-CS.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) writes:
># 
># I've decided that the anti-Soviet contingent has now grabbed
># info-futures and turned it into a cheap soap-box for their cause.
>
>...  Miscellaneous raving.
>
># I am seriously considering:
># 
># 	a) Withdrawing info-futures from usenet distribution.
># 	b) Going to a digestified, edited format to restore order
># 	and eliminate this tripe.
># 
># Of course, the radical right will claim "censorship" because in their
># small minds it is their *right* to reply with tons of their crap and
># co-opt any conversation they're not comfortable with.
># 
># Sorry losers, we're just trying to reduce the *boredom* level. Feel
># free to start your own group.
>
>Do you have any relatives behind the Iron Curtain?  Have members of
>you immediate family been tortured by Communist  Secret Police? 
>It is my opinion that you have a poor grasp of reality.  Outbursts and 
>threats like yours have no place on usenet.
>
>-- 
>Tom Molnar
>Unix Systems Group, University of Toronto Computing Services.


I agree with Tom's statements completely.

I recently had some private correspondence with Mr Shein.
It is my understanding that he does not regret his rude
statements at all.

I think it is a sad moment for the whole net when people like
Mr Shein exercise their one-sided, politically naive, and
insulting childnishness and banality at random.  It is also
a sad fact that he is *really* the original proposer of this
group.

We, as a whole, shall be in a much better position when we
all start respecting each other's views, however different they may be
from ours.  I, on the other hand, won't let people like Mr Shein
offend me or my views.

Please, let's behave ourselves and just discuss like civilized
people.

Hope this works.



Varol Akman, CWI, Amsterdam

What is an individual?  A very good question.  So good, in fact, that
we should not try to answer it.                          - DANA SCOTT