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From: unccab@calico.med.unc.edu (Charles Balan)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: What constitutes abuse of the net?
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Date: 20 Dec 89 19:44:51 GMT
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In article <929@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> csachs@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Colin Sachs) writes:
>(Lawrence J. Hettinger) writes:
  [Stuff about what he did with postings in rec.humor deleted]

>You were *very* wrong in your actions.  I'm willing to bet that the stuff
>you read was rot13 decrypted... you had to make a conscious choice to read
>it and you chose to do so.  Now just live with the consequences. 

If you had read the postings that followed this letter, rather than just
reply without reading the followups, you would see that Mr. Hettinger saw
the error of his actions and apologized for the mistakes he made regarding
this situation.  You would ALSO have seen that the offending posts were
NOT rot13, nor was the subject line suitably written to warn that items of
questionable taste were contained in the posting.  Therefore, as has been
stated earlier, the original poster was also in the wrong.  We have all
hashed this out with Mr. Hettinger and everything is taken care of.  

 I suggest that in the future, we all read the followups to articles
 posted to make sure that we aren't beating a dead gelatin, er, horse (see
 sci.chem :-).  

 Merry Christmas and Happy Chanukah to you all.


                            Charles Balan
UNCCAB@med.unc.edu   ,    UNCCAB@uncmed.uucp    ,   UNCCAB@unc.bitnet
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