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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.
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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.