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From: dboyes@uoregon.UUCP (David Boyes)
Newsgroups: misc.legal,soc.men,soc.women,soc.motss,alt.flame
Subject: Re: Flamage re Mark Ethan Smith/Netiquette
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Date: 18 Jan 88 07:33:42 GMT
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In-reply-to: era@killer.UUCP's message of 14 Jan 88 07:24:56 GMT

Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.47.3 of Thu Oct 29 1987 on drizzle (berkeley-unix)


In some article in alt.flame, MES says:

>  Since you have
>refused to admit to being the pseudo, it becomes apparent that either you
>or your close friends are working together as the pseudo.

Huh? I refuse to admit to being the pseudonym you two are arguing
about too. Does that necessarily make me the pseudonym? This makes NO
sense at all, Mark.

Do you have console logs or records of login/logout times for the
accounts in question, Mark? Without such information, you're going to
have a very difficult time proving any of the charges you made in the
referenced article you posted. Also, be aware that the 'paranoid'
option for finger is easily circumvented and sometimes the system does
it for you. Our 4.3bsd system here regularly 'unparanoids' people on a
completely random basis -- the best solution to that is simply not to
have a .plan file (assuming that is possible -- I don't use any of the
systems referenced; I dislike Unix and use it only because I don't
have enough disk space on my 4341 to run news....sigh). What isn't
there, can't be modified.

>Mr. Wiener, you will not get away with this charade.  I will get you.

Come off it, Mark. Stop acting like a thwarted child and go on with
your life. 'Getting' someone doesn't buy you anything except a lot of
enemies. Take a bit of advice from Christ's speech to the disciples on
evangelism: if they're not listening, knock the dust off your sandals
and go elsewhere. 
 
Pardon me, but I think I'm going to go and be sick.
-- 
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