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From: wasg@titan.rice.edu (Eric Salituro)
Newsgroups: news.admin,misc.legal,soc.women
Subject: Re: Proposed lawsuit
Summary: Is all this necessary
Keywords: paranoia
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Date: 18 Jul 88 17:37:37 GMT
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I guess I'll really get it for this but...

Is it absolutely necessary to respond to everything this MES person says? I
guess for some people this is all just big-time fun to fight with MES about
whether the net is discriminating against women at MIT or whatever, but
since it's in news.admin, shouldn't the only germaine discussion be about
whether there is any credence to this suit.  It has been pointed out that
MES's legal footing is a shaky one at best, so why bother? I may be just
some 2-bit (half-nibble?) amateur psychologist, and no, I was not around for
our last MES controversy, but it looks to me that MES is a textbook paranoid
with the accompanying delusions of grandeur, the whole nine yards.

I did say _appears_, so this gives us two possiblities as to what MES's
underlying motives are.  

1) If MES is just faking this paranoia, we should probably ignore it. MES is
then just trying to goad us into responding to (I haven't been reading
misc.legal) a frivolous suit. If we ignore the situation, the worst that can
happen is that MES really does file a suit, but would a flame war have a
positive effect anyway? I'd wait for the papers before panicking.

2) If MES really is mentally ill, then arguing is going to have no effect
other than to prolong the situation.  A physician is probably the only one
qualified to handle someone with a problem like that.  Provocation and
attention seem to be what MES thrives on and I don't see it being
particurlarly wise or humane to bait a sick person.

Why show off your ability to flame someone that seems to be doing it just to
see us fret about this in public and respond to his every rambling. It's
just as much a waste of time and the ever "precious" disk space because it
most likely will not change this person's mind. Ignore it and it will go
away; if you must respond, do so via private email and while your at it,
maybe you could implore MES to seek some more medical help.
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