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From: magus@drktowr.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto)
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Subject: Re: PUT AN END TO JMONROY! (Was: QIC NEWS...)
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References: <1993May4.034429.1146@nrao.edu>
Message-ID: <93050525567@drktowr.chi.il.us>
Organization: DarkTower Software
Date: Wed, 5 May 93 04:25:01 CDT
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Richard Gooch (rgooch@rp.CSIRO.AU) wrote:
: Hm. What about freedom of speech? His postings may be tedious (though perhaps
: useful as a pure white noise generator), but this hardly merits "NET BAN".
: A more worthy target is one who advertises his "WHAM pride" (keep watching and
: you'll see what it means): something that is actually offensive to some people
: Even then, free speech should prevail (much as "WHAM pride" turns my stomach).
No one wants to stop him from speaking, just make him do it in the proper
groups. Look at that fucking list of groups in the header! 8 groups are
filled with this crap, and maybe only like 2-3 of them would have a marginal
interest, and on top of it, half his noise has nothing to do with QIC
devices.
Hey, I'm paying for a UUCP feed for myself and my users. It may not seem
a lot to you guys who get it at school and such for free, but for
some of us it costs more than irritation.
I mean, come on. Everyone wastes bandwidth once in a while. No big
deal. I don't get that upset normally, but this guy seems to be making a
career out of it.
If he wants to rattle on and perform text masturbation over his
non-existant driver that's fine, but he should start his
own newsgroup that I can conveniently remove from my /usr/lib/news/sys
etcetcetcetc files.
-Louis
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"...but for those who spend their days shoving around symbols as though
they were machine parts..."
John Perry Barlow, clueless EFF co-founder, describing how he sees
computer programmers in _Communications of the ACM_ 1/93, p.20.
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