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From: jfh@killer.UUCP (The Beach Bum)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Warning: Offensive to techies
Message-ID: <3684@killer.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 88 06:13:48 GMT
References: <7614@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <3681@killer.UUCP>
Reply-To: jfh@killer.UUCP (The Beach Bum)
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Keywords: looney, slander

In article <3681@killer.UUCP> wnp@killer.UUCP (Wolf Paul) writes:
>In article <7614@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> era1987@violet.berkeley.edu
>(Mark Ethan Smith) laments:
>>
>>The answer is that the techies who wrote the usenet software, maintain
>>it, are the majority of net readers, and are the only ones with the
>>power to enforce standards, are not willing to enforce any standards
>>in noise groups, or to permit technical status to a group involving
>>women or human rights.
>>
>
>Also, keep in mind that without the techies and their usenet software
>(not to mention UNIX itself, and the hardware, etc -- all created by techies)
>there would be no USENET.
>-- 
>Wolf N. Paul * 3387 Sam Rayburn Run * Carrollton TX 75007 * (214) 306-9101

also, keep in mind it is the us techies, with our over-inflate salaries,
being greedy and keeping all this money to ourselves by paying $200 a
month phone bills out of our own pockets (rpp386 is supported by _me_,
not my company), and spending hundreds of dollars on modems.  and because
we don't have any time for women or human rights, we spend hours and
hours cleaning disk, juggling files, and screwing around with weird
modems just so _you_ can fill them up, create new files, and tie up the
phone lines.

mark, if the `techies' really wanted you off the net, you'd be gone
in a minute.  the downstream feeds from violet and killer could expire
all of your articles with very little effort.  or the site administrators
on violet and killer could compile news facist and just keep you out the
easy way.  or the administrators could leave the security on news nice
and loose so a command like

cd /netnews/news/soc/women ; rm `grep -l '^From: era@killer'`

would simply remove your articles from the local machine.

but instead, charlie and others have taken time out to look for people
who have harrassed you, and insured that you will always have an account.

- john.
-- 
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