Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!actnyc!jsb
From: jsb@actnyc.UUCP (The Invisible Man)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Now it Can Be Told
Message-ID: <757@actnyc.UUCP>
Date: 29 Mar 88 22:22:19 GMT
References: <149@ccd700.UUCP>
Reply-To: jsb@actnyc.UUCP (The Invisible Man)
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In article <149@ccd700.UUCP> jim@ccd700.UUCP (J. Sitek) writes:
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<I would like to take this opportunity to say "thanks" to those people
<who participated, albeit unknowingly, in an experiment.  This 
<experiment was designed to demonstrate how the people who complain
<the loudest about some perceived infringement of their "rights" to
<participate on Usenet, are the same people who have the least amount
<of respect for the network structure, and the people who administer it.

Of course the experiment was skewed by the goal of the experimenter and is
an example of what lies behind the "Science is a Religion" debate over in 
sci.misc.  This is in the scientific tradition of pulling the wings off flies
to see what happens.  Taking the confounding variables into consideration, we
must conclude that this experiment merely duplicated the long known results that
obnoxious posters draw large volumes of response.  We also note a possible
correlation (no cause - effect implied) between the drive for power and its
expression as sadism (in this case masked as self-righteousness).
-- 
286,000 miles per second.  It's not just a good idea, it's the law!

				jim (uunet!actnyc!jsb)