Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ukma!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!buengc!art From: art@buengc.BU.EDU (A. R. Thompson) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin Subject: Re: bigoted racist misuse of email and computer accounts must be dealt with Message-ID: <1592@buengc.BU.EDU> Date: 3 Dec 88 18:38:48 GMT References: <10704@ihlpa.ATT.COM> <1052@umbio.MIAMI.EDU> Reply-To: art@buengc.bu.edu (A. R. Thompson) Followup-To: news.sysadmin Organization: Boston Univ. Col. of Eng. Lines: 32 In article <1052@umbio.MIAMI.EDU> aem@Mthvax.Miami.Edu (a.e.mossberg) writes: >In <10704@ihlpa.ATT.COM>,wrote: >>It seems that Nancy Gould has been struck again. I will post this >>one also. I am going to keep the user id on this one since it is >>obviously contrived. In someone elses posting, the user id in >>another piece of email from the same person (I believe) was >>exposed. Here it is: > >>[evil, nasty message sent to Nancy deleted] > >As I said to David, Nancy should be sending examples of this nastiness directly >to the administrator of the appropriate system. This does not belong posted >to the net at large, especially with such a wide and odd distribution, namely: I disagree, Nancy should post these things and let public opinion take care of those dolts. Peer pressure is much preferable to administrative censorship. > >BTW, if the appropriate sysadmin is reading this, the user should be reported >to University officials, and Nancy may want to consider legal recourse, if any, >as well. Disagree. Put it out here in public, with the names, and we will know who they are. Legal recourse for what? For telling her to perform a sex act on herself? Hardly actionable, offensive? Yes. Actionable? I rather doubt it. For calling her a Jew? Again tastelessly offensive, but not actionable. No, keep the thought control police out of the picture. It's much better to let these people hang themselves with their own words.