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Re: cs.utexas.edu discrimination charged

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From: Russ Allbery
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 00:00
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In news.admin.misc, David Smith <bladex@bga.com> writes:

> I narrowed the complaint down to that Fletcher was (1) blocking access to 
> the gateway because of domainism

Which is a lie.

> (2) not notifying AOLers trying to use the service that he was doing this.

Which is quite understandable, given people like Cat who think they own the
Internet and have a God-given right to use other people's computers.
Fletcher doesn't have to explain himself to anyone.

> Messages that they sent simply never appeared.

Perhaps people should use the service they're paying for rather than trying
to mooch off other people, then.

> Is your response to this still tough roogies?

Yup.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@cs.stanford.edu)     http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~rra/
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From: Russ Allbery <rra@cs.stanford.edu>
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