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From: molnar@utgpu.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Silly threats. Was Re: UUCP - USSR
Message-ID: <1987Oct29.123647.13632@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Date: Thu, 29-Oct-87 12:36:47 EST
Article-I.D.: gpu.1987Oct29.123647.13632
Posted: Thu Oct 29 12:36:47 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 30-Oct-87 23:58:05 EST
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Reply-To: molnar@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Tom Molnar)
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
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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.