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- From: rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla)
- Subject: Re: Larry Margolis contacts my sysadmins
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.034651.22523@cs.yale.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 03:46:51 GMT
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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.
- Since I'm my own sysadmin, if Larry were threatening anyone,
- it would be me.
-
- >> It struck me as rather polite, actually.
- >In your opinion.
- What did I just say? I thought that was quite clearly an opinion.
-
- >> Even if Larry had asked them to threaten you, his email STILL wouldn't
- >> have been threatening.
- >In your opinion.
- No, I don't think so. How can Larry's email be threatening if it
- contains no threat?
-
- >> 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.
- Perhaps you're not listening. I'm not doubting that your sysadmins
- could remove your posting access. I'm doubting that Larry could threaten
- your sysadmins in such a way that they would not want to remove your
- access but would have to. There is basically nothing he can do to them.
- Whether they can remove YOUR privileges is irrelevant to this point.
-
- >> Remember, Usenet is an anarchy.
- >Not when you're at a public University which can easily
- >revoke net access.
- Oh stop whining. There are quite a few places which offer public
- Usenet service to those with telnet access. Since you seem to be a
- CS student, I'm guessing you will still have that in any case.
-
- -Ekr
-
-
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- Eric Rescorla, DoD#431 (Nighthawk S) rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu
- Former chemist now CM400 mechanic ekr@eitech.com(preferred)
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