[9749] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Questions and comments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ALASTAIR AITKEN CLMS)
Thu Feb 1 05:22:37 1996
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 10:10:07 +0000 (GMT)
From: ALASTAIR AITKEN CLMS <A.Aitken@unl.ac.uk>
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This is a copy of a message I sent to Jim Merritt a couple of weeks ago.
>Jim Merritt wrote,
>
>> Please substantiate this. My original posting was one - and ONLY one -
>> sentence. I maintain that you are lying.
>
>and earlier
>
>> Actually, what it tells me is that they have information flow control
>> more like corporations than universities, and that they should look
>> there for possibly already configured solutions to their problem. The
>> firewalls mailing list address such things commonly.
>>
>> Beats me why folks keep bringing in their own prejudices to a comon p
>> roblem. A shame they are blocked by their own fears and wind up
>> re-inventing the wheel. Ah well.....
>
>I replied that I had read that in an earlier post he had commented that the
>college in question had expelled a student for an improper download. If I
>have misrepsented the source of this information then I apologise. I was
>not lying, I was mistaken.
>
>I do not keep copies of this stuff but will search the list logs for the
>comment.
>
>Once again please accept my apologies if I misrepresented you but the
>over-reaction is quite unnecessary.
>
>Alastair Aitken (http://www.unl.ac.uk/~alastair/")
I confess to not understanding his reaction. A year or so ago I helped him
install his www/gopher server and recently he helped a colleague of mine
install a news server. His accusation that I was "lying" is therefore a
little difficult to fathom. I was not aware that he might take offence at
what I had to say.
I did, however, attribute to him a comment that he maintains he did not
make. For this I offer him my apology.
Alastair Aitken.
