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Subject: Jerry Pournelle vs. the ARPANET
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Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 14:57:04 EDT
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From: Mark Crispin 

     Jerry Pournelle is under the paranoid delusion that he
doesn't have an MIT-MC account because he supports Reagan's
policies.  He said as much to me, very loudly in the presence of
others.  He also threatened to call Reagan and/or an unnamed
three-star general to force MIT-MC to give him his account back.

     This happened during Westercon.  I made the mistake of
trying to assist him in moving to alternative facilities so that
he could rejoin this forum.  I really felt bad after hearing
somewhat of the circumstances that he lost his MIT-MC account.  I
compounded this mistake by stating that I did not agree with his
political views but was interested in what he had to say.

     Pournelle was VERY drunk, and he immediately started lashing
out about how this proves this was a conspiracy to take away his
MIT-MC account because of his support for the President of the
United States, etc.  I was then "treated" to a long tirade about
how important he is, all the people he knows, how he was going to
make sure that all these anti-Reagan "enemies" were going to be
purged from the net, how he was going to have the ARPANET shut
down for this offense, ad nauseum.

     I am really sorry I tried to help.  I don't care if
Pournelle is the greatest SF writer in the world (he isn't), he
has no right to dump abuse on people.
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