Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!ukma!david@ANL-MCS.ARPA From: david@ANL-MCS.ARPA Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: (My) Strongly insulting language over the net. Message-ID: <7158@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 19:29:21 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.7158 Posted: Wed Jan 9 19:29:21 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 00:40:24 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 24 Well, shoot. Mr. Jack Jansenn had his organization listed as the "Retarded Programmers Home". If he wants to refer to himself in that manner, I will too. :-) > In a message numbered 399@ukma.UUCP, Mr. David Herron refers to another > participant in the network as "Jack Jansenn at the Retarded Programmers > Home." This is rather insulting language. I know we're not all angels, > but I would expect some gentlemanly behaviour, especially in public > messages. If users don't temper their own language, then network > referrees may find themselves having to act as censors, which both we > and they would, I am sure, find distasteful. > Joe Yao (UUCP!seismo!hadron!jsdy / hadron!jsdy@seismo.ARPA) [By the way, why did you send your personal response through europe?] --:--:--:--:--:--:--:--:--:--:--:--:--:--:--:--:--:--:--:--:--:--:--:--:- David Herron; ARPA-> "ukma!david"@ANL-MCS (Try the arpa address w/ and w/o the quotes, I have had much trouble with both.) UUCP -:--:--:--:--:--:--:--:--:- (follow one of these routes) {ucbvax,unmvax,boulder,research} ! {anlams,anl-mcs} -----\ vvvvvvvvvvv >-!ukma!david {cbosgd!hasmed,mcvax!qtlon,vax135,mddc} ! qusavx -----/ ^^^^^^^^^^^