At 9:43 PM 2/15/96, jdoe-agamemnon@alpha.c2.org wrote:

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Perry sent me a polite note asking why I had posted the original post, and He suggested that in the future I make it clear why I think my posts are relevent to the subject of the list.

Is this what we call the chilling effect?

No. bell@pacifier--surely not a coincidence--has indulged himself excessively. Anyone checked out the LD angle on him? I'm not given over to conspiratorialism, but, really...there's hardly much satisfaction in exercising your D-key "right" when the result is emptiness.