[10108] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Andrews Univ. & C. Thomas
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glenn S. Tenney)
Mon Feb 7 21:22:31 1994
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 18:22:21 -0800
To: com-priv@psi.com
From: tenney@netcom.com (Glenn S. Tenney)
At 6:27 PM 2/7/94 -0700, Ed Tully wrote:
>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.
First, Mr. Thomas was NOT fired, he was merely reprimanded...
Don't you think the same stink would have been raised if the message he had
sent out was "make money quick"? YES! He sent it to thousands of news
groups and mailing lists which then hit millions of people, and which is
not acceptable behavior. If he had been a new user with no expectation of
knowing better, he might have merely received a "you shouldn't do that".
But he WAS in a position where he SHOULD have known it was not acceptable
behavior.
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Glenn Tenney
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