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On 30 Jul 91 06:57:59 GMT, david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) said:

> I received numerous criticisms of a recent posting.  All of them
> arrived as private mail, not addressed to the list.  Each was a
> dispute of a minor point of retoric not related to the content of the
> message or the role of the GNU project.  I posted each of my responses
> to the list, because I recognize this kind of badgering as a tactic
> used on the gnu-misc-discuss mailing list to badger people.

Interesting that you shout "libel" so freely yet see nothing wrong
with commiting other actions which are frowned upon in decent society,
such as posting private mail.

> I had
> expressly forbidden this tactic in an early charter of the
> info-gnu-msdos mailing list charter.  I regret that I later edited
> those details.

This list isn't info-gnu-msdos, David...

> I suspect that there are numerous would-be contributors that fear to
> share their comments because of these tactics.

Then they should get thicker skins.  I suspect that there are numerous
would-be contributors who don't because men around them have
continually tried to reduce them to their physical characteristics.

> I do not believe that
> the assault on my conduct had anything to do with sexism, but was
> primarily a form of harrassment of GNU contributors.  -David-

Oh, come off it, David.  Get a clue.  I like GNU contributers, I spend
lots of time with GNU contributers, I use GNU software constantly, I
report and, when I can, fix bug that I find.  This has nothing to do
with the FSF, but everything to do with you.

david carlton
carlton@husc9.harvard.edu

        Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with
        its own bisexuality.
                                    - Kate Millett, _Flying_