Xref: utzoo news.groups:16242 alt.flame:13908 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!twwells!bill From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) Newsgroups: news.groups,alt.flame Subject: Re: Cancellation and Suspicion Message-ID: <1990Jan9.082626.24809@twwells.com> Date: 9 Jan 90 08:26:26 GMT References: <.:ZI=Fxds10@ficc.uu.net> <1990Jan5.073857.24939@twwells.com> <24327@gryphon.COM> <04.+V8xds13@ficc.uu.net> Organization: None, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Lines: 34 In article <04.+V8xds13@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: : Jeff, Bill, and others. Greg Laskin doesn't deserve your condemnation. As far as that goes, I hadn't condemned Mr. Laskin. Something he didn't mention was that I sent my missive to postmaster@gryphon.com rather than to him personally. I did not know who that was, nor did (or do) I care. The simple fact is that the owner of a machine is, at least morally and almost certainly legally, responsible for what he permits to be done with the machine. Then again, Mr. Laskin's comments about my resources are, on the one hand, demonstrably false, and on the other hand, would, for him to have known the validity of them, have to be partly based on information which he would have had to have committed a felony to have obtained. Not the mark of a person who is thinking very hard. And the not-so-veiled threat which he ended his post with was not too bright, all things considered. So I would say that Mr. Laskin has, now, earned himself a bit of contempt. : He : has, so far as I know, stayed aloof from the whole mess. He has acted, so : far as I know, perfectly reasonably. In fact I believe he has acted in : the past to restrain some of the more outrageous activities of certain users : of his system. Well, were that so, we'd not know, eh? On the face of it, I'd say he's doing a piss poor job of restraining them. --- Bill { uunet | novavax | ankh | sunvice } !twwells!bill bill@twwells.com