Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!ukma!uflorida!novavax!proxftl!twwells!bill From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin Subject: Re: Being anti-moral (was Re: Getting Complacent) Message-ID: <242@twwells.uucp> Date: 6 Dec 88 06:24:13 GMT References: <44439@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> <16742@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <5366@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <172@twwells.uucp> <13150@ncoast.UUCP> <211@twwells.uucp> <13201@ncoast.UUCP> Reply-To: bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells) Organization: None, Ft. Lauderdale Lines: 38 In article <13201@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes: : As quoted from <211@twwells.uucp> by bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells): : | Let me see. After perusing what postings remain of his (slogging : | through sewage would have been more pleasant), I see four points he : | is trying to make: : | : > (deleted) : | : | Did I miss anything important? : +--------------- : : Yup: : : (5) Finger-pointing, setting blame, and punishing the perpetrator isn't : going to stop the NEXT person who gets it into his/her/its head to do : something like the Worm. But that is just a rephrase of point #2: > 2) It is no good blaming or prosecuting The Worm because that > doesn't accomplish anything. --- That disgusting Weemba sent me e-mail, of his typically abusive kind, in which he denies that he said #2. If you are correct in your assertion that he said (5), which is just a paraphrase of (2), then you have given me further evidence of his intellectual dishonesty. Since I don't have his messages any more, I can't verify that this is true; do you have one of the messages where he said it, or failing that, do you recall who it is that was archiving the worm discussion? --- Bill {uunet|novavax}!proxftl!twwells!bill