🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1co398INN66u@hilbert.math.ksu.edu> tar@math.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey) writes:
   jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:

   >From now on each
   >bitch I receive will be reposted back to the group.  I urge anyone
   >else getting this crap to do the same.

   Sigh.  Like this helps anything.

   The obvious solution, of course, is to cancel the reposts.

What good does this do?  It just escalates the battle more.  No matter
how obnoxious anyone is being, forging cancellations of other people's
postings is a big step up in terms of the level of inappropriateness
people on the net perceive.  If you do that, then he's going to do
something else to get back at you.  Etc., etc., ad infinitum, since
everybody wants to have the last word.

The only way it's going to stop before things get completely out of
hand is for one side in this disagreement to just decide that enough
is enough and they're no longer going to try to force their opinions
down the throats of their opponents.  No matter what you do, John De
Armond is going to continue to think that he can do whatever he wants
in alt.sources.  What's more, he's right -- he CAN do pretty much
whatever he wants in alt.sources, since there's no way anybody's going
to make him stop.

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Jonathan Kamens                                         jik@MIT.Edu
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