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In article <4d0p6i$6p6@solutions.solon.com> seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach) writes:

> 
> In article <4d0i2f$g0b@tofu.alt.net>, Vern Six <vsix@person.com> wrote:
> >P.S.  Sorry to everyone who is reading this trash, but the jerk who
> >started this has an auto responder that sends a reply to email
> >informing everyone who sends him email that he won't read email!
> 
> Which turns out to be a lie...

Yep.  I also sent a (politely worded) piece of email to "The Right
Reverend James Colin III" at cjames@cec-services.com commenting that
he seemed to be overreacting a bit in calling for complaints to Vern
Six' sysadmin.  I got the auto responder reply saying that he doesn't
read email.  I then dropped the subject as being not worth pursuing.

It seems that not only did he read the email, he forwarded a copy to
the NASA inspector general and filed a complaint.  I had politely
phrased my email, so he couldn't find anything in the actual content
to complain about, so the complaint to the IG was for "personal use
of government computer equipment".  Perhaps he assumed that there could
be no legitimate reason for participating in the well-known hotbed
of pornography and political incorrectness known as usenet.  Luckily,
my participation in comp.lang.fortran is unquestionably for legitimate
business purposes; and sending email to people to try to keep the
newsgroup to its technical purpose is not too hard to defend either
(as long as I do it in a polite and professional manner that doesn't
reflect poorly on the reputation, etc..).  So if I get my hand slapped,
it probably won't be too hard.

So I have two documented cases of the Right Reverend etc III
attempting to harass people over the most trivial disagreements
with by filing official complaints against them, and documentation
that he lies in his auto responder saying that he doesn't read email.
Sounds like a nice person....NOT.  Back when I went to church as a kid,
they preached things like love, forgiveness, and other virtues.  Our
church wasn't into things like hate, lying, and harassment.  I suppose
that the Right Reverend etc is probably trying to save our children
from the sins of the internet or some such.  I don't think I'd trust
him alone with either of my children.

I know this post is just as off-subject as the original, and I
probably should have resisted making it.  The Right Reverend etc
did succeed in annoying me and I am unable to resist making it
known what kind of tactics his ilk tries to use.

By the way, this reply is composed at home, on my own time, on my
own machine, through my own account with a commercial internet
service provider, does not represent a NASA position, and did
not involve the mistreatment of any horses in the making of glues.
(The last part is an actual quote, as close as I recall the words,
from a standard NASA procurement clause that I saw in a computer
procurement contract many years ago).

-- 
Richard Maine
maine@qnet.com