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From: charlie@mica.stat.washington.edu (Charlie Geyer)
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Subject: Re: posting privileges
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Date: 13 Mar 89 01:49:01 GMT
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In article <7530@pyr.gatech.EDU> gus@pyr.gatech.EDU (gus Baird) writes:

>Sorry, gang, but as a teacher I just can't let this one go by.
>
>One infuriated respondent to the "posting privileges" article asserts: *
>
>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
>*  "What this country needs is a FAIR WAY TO DISCRIMINATE!!!!!  Yes sir". *
>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
>
>He clearly believes "fair discrimination" to be an oxymoron.
>
>This is an exhibition of ignorance so gross as to border upon illiteracy.
>
>Discrimination is our highest intellectual faculty.  *That* is the
>ability which we use to know good from evil, bad from worse, to 
>choose the optimal of several candidate courses of action.
>
>And, in fact, a fair means of discriminating among USENET clients is
>exactly what we need, if the sky is in fact about to fall.
>
>    * I've not attributed this execrable statement.
>      It can't be fair to call attention to someone who 
>      may have let his fury temporarily overcome his reason.
>      Besides, he may not yet have attained majority - even 
>      criminal offenses are often forgiven for minors.
>      (Though I often feel offenses against reason 
>       and language to be worse).
>-- 
>gus Baird
>School of ICS, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, 30332
>...!{decvax,hplabs,linus,rutgers,seismo}!gatech!gitpyr!gus

My, my.  How irate you are.  No sense of humor at all.

But you've got me all wrong.

I am hardly an "infuriated respondent."  I don't really care what you
do at Georgia Tech and it's been years since I was an undergraduate.

Furthermore I didn't miss the point that IN YOUR OPINION the form of
discrimination you propose to practice is completely logical, fair,
and just.

Pardon me if I disagree.

I think you owe me a public apology.