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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ddt@lsd.com)
Sat Mar 30 17:51:37 1996
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Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 14:24:16 -0800
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Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 14:07:55 -0500
To: Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>
From: Dave Del Torto <ddt@lsd.com>
Subject: Re: The limits of my patience.
Cc: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
At 8:43 am 3/30/96, Black Unicorn wrote:
>On Fri, 29 Mar 1996, jim bell wrote:
>>
>> >Anyone who knows me knows I spend all my days end arounding the
>> >U.S. government.
>>
>> Explains a lot! You _are_ paid for this. In an earlier era, you would
>> have gladly run the ovens at Auschwitz if you'd gotten paid for it.
>
>You're way out of line here.
>I expect an apology.
>
>I've dedicated a lot of time to addressing your issues. You have
>repeatedly and preemptively brought the discussion into the realms of
>personal attack. I have endured and rebutted thus far, but you have
>really crossed the line of decency here. Being called an ass I can
>tolerate, the above I cannot.
I agree: this sort of ad hominem attack has no place in a civilized,
reponsible debate on an important topic.
As for Unicorn's end-runs around the govt: I support anyone who challenges
his (or any other) government in order to keep it honest, to the extent
that they do so constructively. I hope you act responsibly, Uni.
Jim, I think you owe Unicorn a public apology, and I think it ought to be
now. If I don't see one, I'm going to feel quite OK about filtering you out
of my future archives of cpunks. Let's see how civilized you're capable of
being: we know you can talk through your "other" orifices.
dave
