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- From: dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
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- Subject: Re: Kicked out of a.f.d-q? I don't think so
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.205742.10843@ncsu.edu>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 20:57:42 GMT
- References: <BzqAL3.99H.1@cs.cmu.edu> <1992Dec26.202439.7585@ncsu.edu> <nate.992@psygate.psych.indiana.edu>
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- In article <nate.992@psygate.psych.indiana.edu>
- nate@psygate.psych.indiana.edu (Nathan Engle) writes:
- >dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
-
- >> I wonder, does Susan Garvin's idea of 'free speech' mean
- >> that people can send e-mail to Steve Chaney's system
- >> administrators accusing Mr. Chaney of 'forgery', when
- >> in fact the 'forgery' was merely a harmless joke?
-
- > I can't speak for Susan, but your example definitely falls in the
- > category of free speech.
-
- Perhaps in the legal sense it does, but Ms. Garvin's
- hair-trigger response to an innocent joke seemed to
- indicate her desire to see Steve Chaney's net access
- restricted.
-
- > As a system administrator I might also be tempted
- > to say that it also falls in the category of good citizenship. If I have
- > any people at my site who're posting forged news articles then I want to
- > know about it whether they're doing it as a joke or not. There's this
- > little issue called "network security" which some of us take pretty
- > seriously...
-
- In the alleged 'forgery', Mr. Chaney placed Susan Garvin's
- name in the 'From:' line, but otherwise he left the header
- intact, including about 5 lines which indicated the sender's
- address. He even included his own (gigantic) .signature,
- and yet Ms. Garvin felt compelled to tattle on him. There
- was never any intention to deceive people about the source
- of the article, hence no 'forgery' existed.
-
- How could such a harmless joke breach "network security"?
- I have a feeling that's merely an excuse to justify
- ill-deserved punishment.
-
- > remember, Robert Morris's internet worm started as a
- > "harmless joke".
-
- Oh please, this doesn't even begin to compare. No harm
- was intended, and no harm could have resulted, except
- possibly for some harm to Ms. Garvin's already inflated
- ego.
-
- >Nathan Engle
-
-
- Doug Holtsinger
-