T. William Wells writes:
Over on ASAR, we give warning for anger. Consider yourself warned.
Vapor. Or else?
In article <9310260646.AA04776@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu>, <rjc@gnu.ai.mit.edu> wrote: : I'm coming to kill your family tommorow with a rusty razor.
I despise Detweiler. I also think he ought to be in a mental hospital. However, this is evil, anti-social behavior. It is abusive beyond any possibility of shrugging it off.
In context it was obviously a joke, lighten up. I think LD/Sboxx deserve what they get for coming onto a forum about cryptography and accusing people of high treason, evil, poison, etc in an almost religious fervor.
No, I'll make it stronger. Either you apologize to me, to Detweiler, and to the list, or the list owner removes you from the list, or I go. I will not be associated with a group that tolerates this sort of behavior.
I guess I will have to be kicked off the list then, or you will have to unsubscribe because I have no intention of apologizing to you or Detweiler. I don't apologize for the "evil, anti-social" joke I made either, but I do apologize for wasting bandwidth on the list if that's any consolation. I'm getting to the point where I can't keep put with the amount of mail in my box anyway. The ball's in your court.
(Does anyone want to know why I'm so incensed. Check out ASAR for awhile. Understand that this person's behavior, and excuse making, is indistinguishable from the abuse that makes that newsgroup necessary.)
That's the funniest thing I've heard all week. Comparing a joke, "I'm gonna kill your family with a rusty razor", made over the net, with rape? Even it they were equivalent, I'm not about to walk on eggshells because some people on the internet can't differentiate between a virtual joke and a real life threat. Perhaps that's the biggest problem in the world today, just last week a bunch of jocks repeated a scene from _The Program_ and laid down in the middle of the high way. If you want to prevent net.abuse, I suggest you take a look at alt.flame or alt.tasteless and issue a couple thousand of your "warnings." -- Ray Cromwell | Engineering is the implementation of science; -- -- EE/Math Student | politics is the implementation of faith. -- -- rjc@gnu.ai.mit.edu | - Zetetic Commentaries --