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On 23 Jul 91 08:50:56 GMT, acmfiu@serss0.fiu.edu (albert chin) said:

albert> ... you refuse to help me. of course this is your right.
albert> however, you are yourself breaking the freedom that you stand
albert> behind, that of freedom of speech (which i equate to freedom
albert> of information...one kind anyway...spoken kind). you are
albert> withholding the freedom of information,

You are trying to say that I am violating someone's rights if I
refuse to help them?  What a novel interpretation!  Last time I
heard the phrase freedom of information, it applied only to
governmental agencies; the public has a right to have information
about what their government is doing.  I somehow don't recall
that you ever were granted a "right" to any information I might
have as an individual.  (No, you can't have my credit card
numbers either).

Now that you mention it, I could use some help in my current
programming project.  Nothing really esoteric; just routine
programming for a few man months.  Please let me know when you
will show up.  You certainly wouldn't want to violate my
unalienable right to have you help me. And my project will
help dissemination of some of the flight data information
that we gather here, so I suppose I could also invoke the
freedom of information. :-)

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Richard Maine
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