[10105] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Andrews Univ. & C. Thomas
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Tully)
Mon Feb 7 20:31:56 1994
From: tully@cscns.com (Ed Tully)
To: postman@lists.psi.com (Robert G. Moskowitz)
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 94 18:27:22 MST
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <10940207174501/0003858921NA4EM@mcimail.com>; from "Robert G. Moskowitz" at Feb 7, 94 12:45 pm
There isn't much to say after Dave Hughes said it - except I might add
the question: why isn't there as much hell raised about porn on the net?
about the guy who posted all over the place about "I wonder what this 900
number is for? " The typical response is "we can't be responsible". Now a
guy mentions God and Jesus, and he's horsewhipped. and now everybody's
responsible, and therefore Mr Thomas should be fired. I like Dave's
answer. I wish I could have said it as eloquently as he.
Aren't we now beating a dead horse? It's kinda like the guy riding along
on his horse, and suddenly he notices he isn't moving anymore. And he loks
further and finds the horse is dead and on the ground. And even further,
his leg is under the god damn horse and he can't get off.
That's about where this list is with this thing about Thomas. The
solution? Shoot the horse and make sure he's dead; then laugh at the sob
who tries to ride it again!
Ed Tully
>
> >It is at the very essence of any rational notion of free speech that
> >one must take some responsibility for that speech. Mr Thomas' actions
> >caused others to take responsibility for his "speech".
>
> We had an 'incident' here where a low-level manager wanted to make a lot of
> fellow IS people aware of some 'bad' politics in his county. So he composed
> his PROFS note and sent it out. First thing he did wrong, was it was a
> local issue and only 10% at best of us live in his county. Second the first
> time he sent it to all of MIS, he did not turn off listing the CCs. So
> 1,000 IS people got a 2 screen message prefixed by a 50 page list of
> everyone in IS. He realized his mistake, so he RESENT the message, but this
> time, instead of all of IS, it went to all PROFS users, all 14,000. He did
> reach more people in his county this way, but this was viewed as
> inappropriate use of corporate computing power. It appearantly showed up on
> his apprasail at the end of the year...
>
> Now if you want to do a mass distribution, you send it off to HR and they do
> it. Lots of stuff comes my way from them signed by others, but for
> political browbeating, you have to go read the bulliten boards by the coffee
> machines (that get purged every two weeks...).
>
> Bob
>
>
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