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From: croot@lynpac.oz (Admin)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: bigoted racist misuse of email and computer accounts must be dealt with
Summary: bigoted mail
Keywords: sysadmins should act to stop racist mail
Message-ID: <232@lynpac.oz>
Date: 7 Dec 88 22:29:46 GMT
References: <10704@ihlpa.ATT.COM> <17617@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: croot@lynpac.oz (Matt Atterbury)
Organization: Lynwood Pacific, Sydney, Australia
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In article <17617@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> era1987@violet.berkeley.edu writes:
>In article <10704@ihlpa.ATT.COM> davidm@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Makowsky) writes:
>>It seems that Nancy Gould has been struck again.  I will post this
>>one also....
>
>[obscene hate mail posted]
>
>[and so on]

I think I agree with this posting ... one should not have to fear using the
net just because someone has taken a dislike to you/your creed/race/etc.

There is a netiquette for this system ... people should respect it (if you
want to flame someone, using ???.flame). Netland is a (micro-) society, and
societies set the rules of one can/cannot do according to generally held
beliefs of what is right/wrong. So if enough people think that this sort of
abuse should not be permitted, then it should forcibly take action to prevent
it. I don't *think* this is fascist because it would require a majority
decision (majority of the votes cast just like US elections? :-)).

	rabid = ON;
	PULL THE PLUG ON THE B*****DS!!!!
	WHO NEEDS THIS SH*T ON THE NETWORK?
	rabid = OFF;

I *think* in Oz that sysadmins would be required by law to prevent/prohibit
such idiocy? I know that a large BBS sysadmin goes into some detail about
this in his registration notes. It just seems like common decency to me??