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From: hamilton@mit-caf.UUCP (David P. Hamilton)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,news.admin
Subject: Re: Fascism Lives (Courtesy and counterproductive lack of it)
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Date: 5 Mar 88 05:39:43 GMT
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In article <3429@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> (Michael Friedman) writes:

>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.

It's *Joe* Bigelow, Mike.  (Try a "f bigelow@caf" to see for yourself.)
And no, I have no idea who he is.  Caf is a heavily-used machine.

Personally, I think Joe has a great future in alt.flame, if nowhere else....

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

No, I have to agree with you.  (Although I'm probably one of the
people his system administrator wants to ban as well, since he posted
a private flame I sent him after a particularly obnoxious article.)  I
had already decided to ignore scrooge's postings, having discovered
how counterproductive either answering or flaming at them could be,
but everyone else should be able to make that choice themselves.  I
don't think people should be "kicked off" the net for whatever reason,
since rude and offensive people seem to learn the error of their ways
eventually.  (At the very least, they vanish.)  Any stance short of
full deregulation opens up controversies such as the Wiener/Maroney
business, and those the net does not need.

-- 
David P. Hamilton
hamilton@caf.mit.edu			"Markets test *popularity*, not truth."
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