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- Subject: DODie's ethics
- Message-ID: <1199@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
- From: sgast+@pitt.edu (Susan Garvin)
- Date: 28 Dec 92 20:40:14 GMT
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-
- So, DODie followed me over to alt.rush-limbaugh and started harping
- about Chaney/Hall's forgery again. He didn't get the response that
- he hoped for - only one person replied, and they disagreed with his
- argument that "joking" forgeries should be ignored. I responded to
- that guy, explaining what CMU policy is. DODie replied and gave
- me his view of what one should do regarding following site policy -
- ignore it.
-
- For anyone who doubts that Reverend Holtsinger has the ethics of
- a snake, I'm reposting his little "look the other way" rant.
-
- /begin included article/
- From pitt.edu!uunet!wupost!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!agate!stanford.edu!rutgers!concert!rock!taco!eceyv.ncsu.edu!dsh Mon Dec 28 13:08:25 EST 1992
- Article: 13464 of alt.rush-limbaugh
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- From: dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: Kicked out of a.f.d-q? I don't think so
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.051013.24692@ncsu.edu>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 05:10:13 GMT
- References: <1992Dec26.202439.7585@ncsu.edu> <nate.992@psygate.psych.indiana.edu> <1186@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
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- In article <1186@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
- sgast+@pitt.edu (Susan Garvin) writes:
-
- > Sigh. I don't think that forging articles is a "harmless joke."
-
- It hasn't been demonstrated that Steve Chaney's article
- was indeed a 'forgery'. He never intended to deceive
- anyone about the source of the article, hence no
- 'forgery' existed. I think you complained about his
- posting so that he would be punished.
-
- > I was told that it was CMU policy to report any forgeries of a CMU address,
- > regardless of the circumstances. When Chaney/Hall forged a header
- > of one of his posts to make it appear that I had posted it, I
- > forwarded the entire article to my sysadmins.
-
- How hard would it have been to simply ignore the article?
-
- > I thought that I'd let my sysadmins decide if it were worthy of
- > reporting to CSUS.
-
- In other words, you forced the CMU sysadmins to contact CSUS,
- since the sysadmins would be openly violating CMU policy if
- they hadn't contacted CSUS. Had you simply ignored the article,
- nobody at CMU would have known that you had seen it. But you
- forced the issue out into the open, where the sysadmins would
- be required to deal with it.
-
- > They informed me that they were reporting it, that they didn't find
- > the joke to be funny, and that they doubted that the CSUS sysadmins
- > would find it funny, either.
-
- And I bet you got a big laugh out of it, knowing that Mr. Chaney
- might be punished, huh?
-
- > I don't know what CSUS did, but
- > Chaney/Hall ceased forging articles (as far as I know) after.
- > I've never personally been in contact with the CSUS administrators.
-
- That's right, just wash your hands of the whole affair. No need
- to dirty those little hands with a 'net.censor' label when you
- can easily get your sysadmins to do your dirty work.
-
- > Holtsinger, on the other hand, posts the names and street addresses
- > of corporate officials when he thinks that a user at a .com site
- > has overstepped the limits of propriety.
-
- But Ms. Garvin, the user in question didn't object to my posting
- of the street address of his company. In fact, he found it
- hilarious.
-
- > I'm still somewhat
- > amused that he would complain about me obeying the rules of
- > my site.
-
- Oh yeah, you were just 'obeying the rules'. What a cop-out.
- You could have easily ignored the article, and nobody at CMU
- could have possibly known that you had seen it. Admit it,
- you wanted to see Mr. Chaney punished.
-
-
- >Susan
-
-
- Doug Holtsinger
-
- /end included article/
-
- Someone might want to tell DODie that many sysadmins read the net.
-
-
- Susan
-
-