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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Welcome to Usenet 1984
Message-ID: <444@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 28-Oct-84 18:19:36 EST
Article-I.D.: cbosgd.444
Posted: Sun Oct 28 18:19:36 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 29-Oct-84 02:56:20 EST
References: <274@haddock.UUCP>
Reply-To: mark@cbpavo.UUCP (Mark Horton)
Organization: Bell Labs, Columbus
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Summary: 

Most companies do not like to have their employees behaving in a way
uncomplimentary to themselves (and implicitly their company) in a
public forum.  Usenet is such a public forum.  Do you think it is fair
to try to hide Mr. Williams' behavior from his supervision?

Going to somebodies boss and complaining is certainly a last resort, but
every so often it has to be done.  The damage from posting attacks of a
personal or ethnic or sexual nature can be quite severe.  It wasn't long
ago when a joke about black people was posted to net.jokes.  Someone on
the other side of the net got offended, and filed an affirmative action
complaint.  Netnews was nearly removed from all the machines at that
location, and the last I heard, they still only get business related groups.