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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Being anti-moral (was Re: Getting Complacent)
Message-ID: <13201@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 3 Dec 88 00:12:47 GMT
References: <44439@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> <16742@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <5366@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <172@twwells.uucp> <13150@ncoast.UUCP> <211@twwells.uucp>
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As quoted from <211@twwells.uucp> by bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells):
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| In article <13150@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
| : As quoted from <172@twwells.uucp> by bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells):
| : +---------------
| : | [about Weemba]
| : | Mr. Spafford, you have been most reasonable in this debate; don't you
| : | think that it is a good idea to stop encouraging this ethical midget
| : | to post?
| : +---------------
| : Much as it may annoy you, Weemba has a good point to make about this whole
| : thing.  (I do admit that his language is, as usual, almost(?) enough to
| : obscure the point he's trying to make.)
| 
| Let me see. After perusing what postings remain of his (slogging
| through sewage would have been more pleasant), I see four points he
| is trying to make:
| 
> (deleted)
|
| Did I miss anything important?
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Yup:

(5) Finger-pointing, setting blame, and punishing the perpetrator isn't
    going to stop the NEXT person who gets it into his/her/its head to do
    something like the Worm.

This is perhaps the most important point that has yet been made about the
whole Worm debacle.  It'd be nice if people paid attention to it.  The
others are either variations on this, or *suggestions* as to how to actually
get people doing something instead of pointing fingers.

++Brandon
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