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In article <1991May31.161031.178@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu>, tar@math.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey) writes...
>jp@tygra.Michigan.COM (John Palmer) writes:

>[ I assume this wasn't yet another forgery in your name, John?  It's so
>  hard to tell. ]

>>Thats a shame. Some people just don't know how to handle flamers. If
>>he got harassing e-mail, he should contact the sender's sysop and the
>>feed site of the system from which the posting came. 

>>He should respond to his flamers and let them know that he has a RIGHT
>>to post anything he wants. How do we solve this problem: Post flames
>>in public newsgroups against the offender and also put him in your
>>system-wide kill file. 

>Let me try to get this straight.  Everyone has the RIGHT to post anything
>they want, be it legal or illegal.  However, no one has the RIGHT to
>mail anything they want to a particular person.

>I don't get it.  Why does freedom of speech extend to posting but not email?

>You keep using this word "RIGHT".  I do not think it means what you think
>it means.

Correct.  It should be a consistent matter that people should be able to 
say, transmit or publish whatever they please, so long as it is not an 
attempt at fraud.