In <Pine.SGI.3.93.961128125719.27120A-100000@tiger.towson.edu>, on 11/28/96 at 01:46 PM, "Kathleen M. Ellis" <tgkelli@tiger.towson.edu> said: ::[snip] ::A brief word on abuse... by calling Gilmore or anybody else a "faggot" ::doesn't win me over to your cause, as is the case with many others on ::the cypherpunks list. Further, while I may not agree with Dr. Denning's ::perspective on these issues, I respect her as a writer, a cryptographer, ::and as a computer scientist. I also (groan if you must) admire her as ::a woman who has maintained such a high-profile position in such a ::religious debate, given that she probably gets mail like yours all the ::time. :: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- good, solid statement of purpose which too few of us practice. it is general human nature to be protective (usually in a jealous sense) of our nurtured opinions. However, that is not an excuse to be abusive of another. It is one thing to be vituperatively demonstrative, another to criticize anothers view point by epithetical allegorations, and another, with careful consideration, to disagree with _civilized_ clinically definable examples which delineate your viewport. ...but I always make an exception for sarcasm! or, as I have said before: "Profanity is a crutch for inarticulate motherfuckers. but profanity is occasionally condonable as enlightened punctuation." --attila of course, "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." --Isaac Asimov -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 Comment: Encrypted with 2.6.3i. Requires 2.6 or later. iQCVAwUBMp4DN704kQrCC2kFAQGknAQAuC9PsS2HkXVp0ZdVjd3clWXn7P4F16RQ oHK6TDeWpUs1+ZxEoP6rSyyPjBOT/nJv4yi/uRu8wkIdLEyvb/JCHu/jWSnobr3C H74oCh9O1UOMMmFxJ4/UrJB1MCb0ZyN9EqlAFYdz0kGdW7MP9R0dkzl7LLalokhT TP1jEd6gnXs= =d/cZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- without arms they do not resist; without communication they know not what to resist. -attila