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From: lazarus@athena.mit.edu (Michael Friedman)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,news.admin
Subject: Re: Fascism Lives (Courtesy and counterproductive lack of it)
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Date: 2 Mar 88 22:52:43 GMT
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In article <1048@ut-emx.UUCP> kraut@ut-emx.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) writes:
 >In article <3365@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU >, lazarus@athena.mit.edu (Michael Friedman) writes:
 > > In article <68@rolls.UUCP > news@rolls.UUCP (The Nutter) writes:
 > >  >As a netnews administrator here and on terminus, I never suspected
 > >  >that I would ever compile as a fascist.  Lately, though, postings by
 > >  >a user "scrooge" from this site have forced me to do so.

 > >  >Based on some of the replies to his article, I'd suggest that some news
 > >  >administrators extend the same courtesy to other users...

 > > It is, of course, your site, and you have the right to do what you
 > > want with it. Scrooge is also something of an asshole.

 >I see no excuse for anyone getting down to name-calling of this sort, Michael.

I see. It is perfectly all right to cut scrooge of the net, but it is
bad to call him an asshole. I think you have your priorities mixed up.

 > > Despite this I do not think it is appropriate to stop him from
 > > posting... after all, no one has stopped Jeff Bigelow.

 >Huh?  what kind of an argument is that?  who is this "Jeff Bigelow", anyway?
 >(not that I care for an answer, really)

Jeff Bigelow is the person who suggested that if I found out that my
dead wife had been a liberal I would piss into her empty eye-sockets.
The point I was making was that some people on the net are much more
offensive than scrooge.

 > > Your actions seems to have been taken to protect us. I would suggest
 > > that such actions should not be taken unless a substantial proportion
 > > of the readers of this newsgroup request it.

 >That really is the suggestion of the century; I can just see all the votes
 >flying back and forth.  On the basis of the name-calling and this useless
 >proposal alone, Michael is a candidate for the kill-file he was suggesting
 >to use on others.

My, my, we are touchy. As kicking people off the net is very rarely
necessary I don't think it will really be all that bad if we make it
difficult to do. 


PS. I am rather disappointed. Am I the only person on the net who does
not think scrooge should have been booted?

These are the official opinions			Mike Friedman
of my organization. So, TOUGH!!