Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site oliven.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!oliveb!oliven!rap From: rap@oliven.UUCP (Robert A. Pease) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Re: Re on the direction of net.motss Message-ID: <657@oliven.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Oct-84 16:28:54 EDT Article-I.D.: oliven.657 Posted: Fri Oct 12 16:28:54 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 14-Oct-84 06:52:31 EDT References: <9211@watmath.UUCP> <3624@ut-sally.UUCP> Organization: Olivetti ATC, Cupertino, Ca Lines: 33 . >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 {hplabs|zehntel|fortune|ios|tolerant|allegra|tymix}!oliveb!oliven!rap