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- From: decay@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (dean.kaflowitz)
- Subject: Re: Larry Margolis contacts my sysadmins
- Organization: AT&T
- Distribution: na
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 13:15:01 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.131501.9420@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Nov20.234559.20074@ncsu.edu> <1992Nov23.064023.28693@ncsu.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov23.064023.28693@ncsu.edu>, dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov21.182957.25544@cs.yale.edu>
- > rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla) writes:
- >
- > >dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- > >>margoli@watson.IBM.com writes:
- >
- > >> But are you admitting that you sent e-mail to my system administrators
- > >> asking that someone should talk to me about my posts? You don't
- > >> call that threatening? What were you expecting them to do?
- >
- > > Even if your sysadmins threatened you, that would not make Larry's
- > > email threatening.
- >
- > That's easy for you to say, you're not on the receiving end.
- >
- > > It struck me as rather polite, actually.
- >
- > In your opinion.
- >
- > > Even if Larry had asked them to threaten you, his email STILL wouldn't
- > > have been threatening.
- >
- > In your opinion.
- >
- > > In fact, I fail to see how any threat Larry
- > > would make against your system admins would be anything but laughable.
- >
- > You and Margolis obviously have far more control over your posting
- > privileges than I do.
- >
- > > Remember, Usenet is an anarchy.
- >
- > Not when you're at a public University which can easily
- > revoke net access.
-
- Let's see. You cross-posted irresponsibly to a number of
- inappropriate newsgroups and someone complained to your
- administrators about it. You see that someone as having been
- threatening and wrong while you are perfectly correct
- in cross-posting irresponsibly and inapproriately to
- multiple newsgroups. And you feel that saying that the
- irresponsible cross-poster should receive a 'talking to'
- is threatening. Now, if you had done nothing at all
- wrong, your administrators would recogize this pretty
- quickly and you would have nothing to worry about. I have
- met, via email and personally, quite a few system administrators
- and most of them don't give a rat's paw about net catfights.
- They will take any misbehaviors seriously. I conclude from
- this that your administrators did in fact see your actions
- as wrong if you were threatened by the email, since
- innocent behavior would be no threat.
-
- Now I wouldn't have emailed your administrators to complain about
- you. I'd just ignore you since these things tend to take care
- of themselves. But I don't characterize Larry's mail as
- threatening since it contained no threats or requests for
- disciplinary action more severe than a 'talking to.' And
- we're are most of us accessing the net through facilities which
- can easily be revoked, so your point is irrelevant.
-
- Dean Kaflowitz
-
-