Xref: utzoo soc.culture.jewish:8470 news.sysadmin:1748 comp.mail.misc:1414 rec.humor.d:1244 news.misc:2190 misc.misc:4030 soc.culture.misc:475 soc.misc:934 comp.mail.uucp:2402 news.admin:4122 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mit-eddie!bu-cs!buengc!art From: art@buengc.BU.EDU (A. R. Thompson) Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish,news.sysadmin,comp.mail.misc,rec.humor.d,news.misc,misc.misc,soc.culture.misc,soc.misc,comp.mail.uucp,news.admin Subject: Re: bigoted racist misuse of email and computer accounts must be dealt with Message-ID: <1548@buengc.BU.EDU> Date: 30 Nov 88 18:57:27 GMT References: <10676@ihlpa.ATT.COM> Reply-To: art@buengc.bu.edu (A. R. Thompson) Followup-To: soc.culture.jewish Organization: Boston Univ. Col. of Eng. Lines: 24 In article <10676@ihlpa.ATT.COM> davidm@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Makowsky) writes: > > I am posting two pieces of email received by Nancy Gould. >I am doing this on my own, and without her permission (Nancy has >already made it public on the net that she received such email). > Since I believe in the privacy rights of those who send >email, no matter how disgusting it is, I have deleted any reference >to user id's, or the senders' names. However, I have kept enough >of the headers, including the machines from which the email was >sent and transported through, and the message id's of the email, >that I hope any of the respective system administrators will be >able to identify the sender of the email and take whatever he or >she feels is appropriate action. It's truly unfortunate that you chose to delete the names of the senders of this disgusting and cowardly trash. They deserve to be publicly exposed. I don't see how their privacy rights in any way should be invoked to protect them from the scorn they so richly deserve. Further, by deleting the names of the senders and leaving their posting addresses you have inadvertently called into question the behavior of all who post from those machines. In the interests of fairness to the decent people at ohio-state.edu and pittsburgh.edu you should have released the names of those who would hide such bigotry behind the cover of ill conceived privacy rights so as not to tar these people with the same brush.