🚀 go-pugleaf

pinkas@skywalker.intel.com (Israel Pinkas) writes:

>At this point, I believe that Mr. de Armond has overstepped all net
>etiquette and I hereby ask that people write to sites that feed dixie.com
>and ask them to stop the feed.  This will remove dixie.com from the net,
>and will serve as a harsh lesson on net abuse.  By blatantly ignoring the
>rules, Mr. de Armond has gone from being wasteful to theft.

Censorship, eh?

>P.S.  Would the sites with large long distance bills send him their bills?
>Also, can if there are any net.lawyers out there, can they determine
>whether any laws have been broken?

John is practicing his own peurile little brand of terrorism at the
moment - reminiscent of an earlier episode where some complete and
total loser (a certain `Mark Ethan Smith') attempted to put pressure on
the network (and was summarily laughed at).  It's a sad state of
affairs when someone in a position of John's supposed responsibility
takes it upon himself to mould the behaviour of thousands of other
people.  But *your* post is, in turn, reminiscent of an attempt by some
asshole called `Johnathon Richmond' (who was offended by a jewish joke
in rec.humor.funny) to get Brad Templeton off the net; he went so far
as to ask people to help him get Brad sacked, and later to cut him
off.  I'm sure Richmond got a job somewhere, but I doubt it was at a
firm with a feed :)

It is juvenile to suggest that a feed be cut, or a person sacked, just
because they piss you off.  Dickheads like this are simply an
unavoidable consequence of having a large community; next, you'll be
asking people to help you to firebomb his house, destroy his credit
rating, or run up a huge phone bill on his account.

John - if you want to insist on playing out your stupid little game,
you might find it more productive to make creative use of email (or
learn to write witty, personalised flamage).  You may find certain
postings annoying; what you're doing is more so.  The same goes for
people who want to `punish' John - do whatever you want, but remember:
to most of us, this is just another playground spat, and you're just
another bunch of children.  And when you get down to it, children can
be pretty fucking irritating.

Mike.

ps: Surely you're not naive enough to think sophisticated newsreaders
exist merely to allow one to read articles in sequence.  The primary
motive for using a threaded newsreader is to be able to easily skip the
crap :)
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Mike McGaughey			AARNET:	mmcg@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au

"Head stompin', ass kickin', finger licking nastiness"