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From: wmapple@BRL.MIL (Info-Apple-Request)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: [: broken keys, ROM copyright, COMPUTIST]
Message-ID: <8905031722.aa26352@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Date: 3 May 89 21:22:37 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: The Internet
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Phil, Today you wrote:

> ROM copyrights:  Huh?  I'll never understand you guys.  Who CARES if it's
> legal?  I mean, if you're just going to use it yourself & not sell it -
> even if you're going to give it away free to a few friends - you're helping
> the computing community by providing More Computer Power to the People!
> Sometimes laws are just another form of Cybercrud!
> [To all those hung-up on legal codes as their only source of morality becau!
> they are too weak-minded to determine themselves whether an action is wrong
> or right:  Send all the flames you like to my system manager!  I'm going to
> lose this account when I graduate this month anyway!]


So much for your account.  Since you're about to enter the world
as an "educated man," with a degree from a respected liberal arts
institution, you might consider the effects of your big mouth on the
welfare of others, to wit:

                The traffic that you and others post is carried on many
        computers owned by the U.S. Taxpayer.  Advocating illegal activity,
        as you did in this posting, could, if found out, cost many of us
        access to info-apple and/or comp.sys.apple.  OUR sys
        administrators would simply remove our access to the mailing list
        and the newsgroup.  

        Why on earth do you want to do this?  Or hasn't the full impact
        of being "grown up" hit you just yet?
        
 _Brint Cooper
<info-apple-request@brl.mil>
        
 PS:  I have written to the moderator of the Bitnet side of the
list and asked that your name be removed immediately -- graduation or not.
Congratulations:  This is a first for me!