Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ut-sally!ut-ngp!ut-emx!kraut From: kraut@ut-emx.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) Newsgroups: news.admin,misc.legal Subject: Re: Responsibility for postings. Message-ID: <168@ut-emx.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 00:23:19 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-emx.168 Posted: Mon Oct 19 00:23:19 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Oct-87 00:39:13 EDT References: <4611@videovax.Tek.COM> <2294@umn-cs.UUCP> <1606@dasys1.UUCP> <4626@videovax.Tek.COM> Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Lines: 41 Summary: Steve and Kyle express my sentiment exactly; so here is my "peer-support" of Larry Lippman Xref: mnetor news.admin:1196 misc.legal:3167 It has been many days, probably several weeks, that I have been meaning to speak up in support of Larry Lippman in this (most unfortunate) unpleasantness that he finds himself in, simply to let him (and others) know that there are people on the net who think well of him and who will support him when attacked unfairly. I have been on the net for nearly 10 years, and Larry has been an outstanding participant and contributor for many of those years and I want to take this opportunity to express my appreciation to him for that. From Mark Smith, on the other hand, I have yet to see an article that would lead me to say anything similar. Many have been distasteful and offensive (to me), demonstrating (to me) that it is not worth my time to read further what this person has to say. Consequently, I cannot say that I am fully informed (who can, really) on the details regarding the problem Larry seems to have with Mark (or anyone else) - but what I have seen leads me to believe that I would invite Larry to have an account on my machine any day, whereas I feel embarrassed having to share even the same network with Mark (and I am willing to chip in a few bucks to the defense fund of anyone that needs to go to court over cancelling one of Mark's USENET account). In the past, I have made a habit of sending supportive Email to people who I felt needed and deserved support in order to be able to ignore some of the more outrageous statements by others, as a public argument with an obviously unreasonable person does not benefit anyone, really. We can, at least, create the illusion that certain folks have noone paying the least attention to their articles, and, without any audience reaction, I am sure even the most obnoxious person will, eventually, get tired of posting articles or mailing Email-messages which seem to get ignored completely. In this spirit, please ignore this article ...((-:, ---Werner (I deny having authored this article, as I am, obviously, way too busy to have found time to write it; ask anyone around here ...) -- INTERNET: kraut@emx.cc.utexas.edu UUCP: kraut@ut-emx.UUCP (or ...!ut-sally!ut-emx!kraut)