[10323] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Newsweek,Wall Street Journal Etc. Where are you ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dennis Fazio)
Fri Feb 18 20:45:43 1994
From: dfazio@mr.net (Dennis Fazio)
To: nettech@crl.com (Joseph W. Stroup)
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 19:44:41 -0600 (CST)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <199402180557.AA08036@crl.crl.com> from "Joseph W. Stroup" at Feb 17, 94 09:57:21 pm
>Reporters lets not rock the boat. Don't any of you have any interest in
>strange bid/cooperative agreement situation. Are you not interested in
>the fact that the same group is back in bed again and sleeping soundly ?
>If not shame on you. A few at the NSF & Whitehouse think that they are in the
>position to spend tax dollars without being accountable - We will see.
>
>In the NSF Press release its says that an exhustive ,,,,etc,etc,etc,
>That must mean they went out for lunch more than once while trying to make
>a behind closed doors deal with MCI.
It seems that you are making a lot of speculations and accusations without
any evidence. It might be OK to make properly worded inquisitive speculations
in a public forum if you have reason to think there may be unethical or
improper activities going on, but it is impolite and improper on your part
to make direct accusations publicly without evidence to support those
accusations.
If you do indeed think there are improper conflicts of interest and
unethical behavior on the part of public officials, the proper thing to do
is collect information and facts supporting that hypothesis and make a
convincing reasoned exposition using the evidence and facts you have
gathered. You would be doing the net community a great service.
I have no idea whether or not anything improper happened in this
circumstance. On one hand, appearances of impropriety on the surface may be
deceiving and on the other hand, a lot of bad stuff can be going on without
any exterior clues for the rest of us to detect. The proper procedure is to
ask questions first, then shoot later. Poke around, inquire, gather facts,
post what you find.
If you truly desire to do some good or right egregious wrongs, you only
damage your credibility immensely by broadcasting all sorts of allegations
without any evidence to support them. Later, if you finally actually do
have the goods on someone, you will have no audience for presentation.
You have only made constant accusations without proper supporting material.
It is unfortunate for you that most people on the list have probably learned
to hit the delete key without looking inside when they see your messages in
their mailboxes. The more technically astute have likely already updated
their filter lists. I encourage you to change your methods before you indeed
become nothing more than a bit bucket filler in the electronic wilderness.
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