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From: rap@oliven.UUCP (Robert A. Pease)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: Re on the direction of net.motss
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Date: Fri, 12-Oct-84 16:28:54 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 12 16:28:54 1984
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>Ignore them.
>
>They won't go away (really) but they might stop haunting this newsgroup.
>Replying to them (in any fashion) only encourages them.
>-- 
>John Quarterman, CS Dept., University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712 USA
>jsq@ut-sally.ARPA, jsq@ut-sally.UUCP, {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!jsq

I would be a little concerned about just  ignoring  them  in
the  hopes  that they would stop haunting a newsgroup or any
other place/medium.  They may  just  go  and  incite  people
elsewhere to persecute gays/non-christians/whatever.

Keep your eyes on them.  They can be dangerous if you don't.
I  would  rather  have a Brunson or an Arndt making noise in
front of me where I can see what they are up to and  respond
to  it, than to have them go away silently and be hit upside
the head with something that some bigot cooked up.

Remember, when the children  are  upstairs  playing  quietly
they  are  usually getting into trouble.  It can be the same
with a bigot.

DISCLAIMER:  I have used the  names  Brunson  and  Arndt  as
examples to refer to the types of people with their kinds of
behaviour and I mean absolutely no offense to anyone by  the
use of the word bigot.
-- 

					Robert A. Pease
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