[10109] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Andrews Univ. & C. Thomas
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Tully)
Mon Feb 7 21:44:27 1994
From: tully@cscns.com (Ed Tully)
To: postman@lists.psi.com (Glenn S. Tenney)
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 94 19:39:49 MST
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <199402080222.SAA18449@netcom9.netcom.com>; from "Glenn S. Tenney" at Feb 7, 94 6:22 pm
By who's standards of "acceptable" behavior? I forget what Dave H called it
but it was something like the gods of the internet. Who gave any of us
censure rights?
>
> 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.
>
> ---
> Glenn Tenney
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