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From: oleg@quad1.UUCP
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Subject: Don't even THINK about it! was Re: Did Eric write this?
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Date: Tue, 10-Nov-87 13:02:43 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 10 13:02:43 1987
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In article <1764@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> dmjones@athena.mit.edu (David M. Jones) writes:
>	2.  Flood the system managers at puff with e-mail and try to
>	    make them realize that just putting /mading@puff/h:j in
>	    our kill files (for those of us who have that option) is
>	    not enough.  The problem of Eric Mading transcends such a
>	    simple solution.

NO!  Don't be a worse asshole than Mading himself!

YES, Eric Madind IS a dim-witted asshole and there are hardly more than 2-3
other like-mindless twits who agree with him.  YES, he offends us all and
we all dislike him profoundly.  YES, "Mading" may be a hoax and may be 
someone's twisted idea of a joke.

... But does that mean we should kick people off the net any time they offend
us?!  NO!  

A number of other people on the NET had been subject to attempts to drive 
them of the NET.  The Brahms Gang, Rich Rosen, Ken Arndt, Foothead, Tim 
Moroney, HASA as a whole... and, yes, I too had lost my USENET access at some
point because someone (a SPECIFIC someone with enough influence) did not like
me and my opinions.

YOU DON'T LIKE Eric Mading?!  Then IGNORE him,  or FLAME him, or E-MAIL to
him.  But do not start setting precedents of driving people off the NET because
someone disagrees with their opinions.

P.S.  Don't be mistaken -- I think that Eric Mading is an antisemitic, fascist
shit.  I wish he would just go away and leave the NET alone (or got 
accidentally shot by DEA assholes, who he admires so much)...  But I do NOT
want ANYONE booted off the NET.  It sets a bad example.
-- 
Oleg Kiselev  --  oleg@quad1.quad.com -- {...!psivax|seismo!gould}!quad1!oleg
HASA, "A" Division

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