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Article #92Re: DON'T DEAL WITH ETHAN PLATT / cwalt@teleport.com
From: Christopher B. Browne
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 00:00
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 00:00
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In article <45j4lq$ksg@brtph500.bnr.ca>, Steve Bagdon <sbagdon@nando.net> wrote: >>Instead of spamming him, why not contact the police where he is located? >>Theft is theft! > >I don't wish to be disrespectful, but let's look at the choices here: > >1) arrest the drug dealer >2) arrest the murderer >3) arrest the theif operating on the 'net. While we're off topic, why not consider arresting *all* of the above sorts of individuals, as well as people that misspell "thief," for *their* breach of Nettiquette! :-) Arrests are a many-valued operation not limited to having effect on only one person or "class" of persons. They usually get applied to people that have broken laws, which is true of each variety described above. -- Christopher Browne - Email:<cbbrown@io.org>, WWW:<http://www.io.org/~cbbrown/> "When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*" - Linus Torvalds
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: ff532,f9f8d8a95f1a4ef1 X-Google-Attributes: gidff532,public X-Google-Thread: ff7dd,f9f8d8a95f1a4ef1 X-Google-Attributes: gidff7dd,public X-Google-Thread: 109bd0,f9f8d8a95f1a4ef1 X-Google-Attributes: gid109bd0,public X-Google-Thread: 111dad,f9f8d8a95f1a4ef1 X-Google-Attributes: gid111dad,public X-Google-Thread: 115eb8,f9f8d8a95f1a4ef1 X-Google-Attributes: gid115eb8,public X-Google-Thread: f56c9,f9f8d8a95f1a4ef1 X-Google-Attributes: gidf56c9,public X-Google-Thread: 114fad,f9f8d8a95f1a4ef1 X-Google-Attributes: gid114fad,public X-Google-Thread: f55c0,f9f8d8a95f1a4ef1 X-Google-Attributes: gidf55c0,public From: cbbrown@io.org (Christopher B. Browne) Subject: Re: DON'T DEAL WITH ETHAN PLATT / cwalt@teleport.com Date: 1995/10/15 Message-ID: <45sear$iim@ionews.io.org> X-Deja-AN: 117637642 references: <453uor$8aq@hobbes.cc.uga.edu> <45j4lq$ksg@brtph500.bnr.ca> organization: Internex Online (io.org) Data: 416-363-4151 Voice: 416-363-8676 newsgroups: ott.forsale.computing,ott.forsale.other,ont.forsale,ca.forsale,carleton.forsale,tor.forsale,uk.forsale,kingston.forsale,kw.forsale,fl.forsale,can.forsale,misc.forsale.computers.printers,misc.forsale.computers.storage,misc.forsale.computers.pc-specific.motherboards,misc.forsale.computers.discussion,misc.forsale.computers.memory,misc.forsale.computers.modems,misc.forsale.computers.other.systems,misc.forsale.computers.monitors,alt.forsale,triangle.forsale,um.forsale,aus.ads.forsale,aus.ads.forsale