[46822] in Cypherpunks
Re: please stop the Mitnick stuff
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Tue Jan 9 12:09:08 1996
To: Gordon Campbell <campbelg@limestone.kosone.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 07 Jan 1996 11:59:24 EST."
<2.2.32.19960107165924.0068f9e0@limestone.kosone.com>
Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 11:51:20 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Gordon Campbell writes:
> >When there are one or two small items posted on a topic thats no big
> >deal. When its a lot of stuff, it becomes an enormous pain. Multiply
> >the few seconds to read and digest enough of a message to know you
> >should delete it by dozens of messages per mailing list per day and by
> >a dozen mailing lists and you suddenly have an untenable waste of your
> >time.
>
> I con't recall you speaking up against the various flame wars that have been
> going on in here lately, Perry.
Thats because I largely send people private mail. I try not to nag in
public. Just because you don't see me say "this is irrelevant" doesn't
mean I didn't notice.
Perry
