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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA73 ; Thu, 28 Jan 93 03:01:59 EST Xref: sserve comp.unix.wizards:28370 comp.unix.bsd:10461 Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.bsd,alt.suit.att-bsdi Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!yale!spock!lancelot From: lancelot@spock.uucp (Thor Lancelot Simon) Subject: Re: BSDI/USL Lawsuit -- More Bad News for Human Beings... Message-ID: <1993Jan26.215708.13365@choate.edu> Sender: usenet@choate.edu (Usenet posting daemon) Nntp-Posting-Host: rattle Organization: Choate Rosemary Hall References: <93Jan15.211025edt.1578@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> <1993Jan17.203539.6063@s4mjs.uucp> <18102@umd5.umd.edu> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:57:08 GMT Lines: 33 In article <18102@umd5.umd.edu> mark@roissy.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz) writes: >>] I think it would be a great idea if USL people showed up. >>] This way, we could tell them, in person, what we think. >>] That's what USENIX is all about! >> >>Look, I'm not fond of what USL is doing *as* *a* *corporate* *body*, but >>I like a lot of the things the folks in the trenches have done. Do you >>seriously want to be abused because of the corporate policies of *your* >>employer? > >It _is_ an opportunity to talk to USL people. It should _not_ be looked >at as an occasion to yell and scream at them. > >If 50 people a day come to their booth and say "The USL suit against BSDI >is making you look _really_ _bad_", that will get noticed. If you staff >a booth at a trade show, its your _job_ to tell your employer when people >are saying stuff like that. > >But resist the urge to say "You're all a bunch of assholes!!!" The people >you talk to didn't cause this and don't deserve to take the heat for it. > >Be nice and you might get your point across. Be nasty and you just turn >them against you. It is a shame nobody thought to organize pickets. That might be the right blend of nice and nasty for the occasion. -- ******************************************************************************* *Thor Simon * Okay, just a little pin-prick...There'll be no more-* *tls@panix.COM * Aieeeeaaaugh!-but you may feel a little _sick_. * *tls@spock.UUCP * ---Pink Floyd * *******************************************************************************