On 14 Sep 96 at 20:14, paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk wrote:

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The article quotes Kozinski as saying "I have a severe problem with anonymous E-mailers . . . You don't have a right to walk up to somebody's door and knock with a bag over your head." The article says Kozinski likened anonymous E-mail to menacing someone.

What is the offense involved then, going bagged in a public place? since when do I or anyone else not have the right to wear a bag on my head?

<BS_mode> Make-up should be outlawed! The potential for turning oneself into an anonymous creature is *way* to big for not being alarming. There ought to be a law! <BR> And beside, although it is often used as an enhancing tool, of what use is the little and irrelevant egoist human pleasure of looking "nice" when we are viewing things from the standpoint a sensitive and poor and terrified child or frail and defenseless woman? </BS_Mode> jfa Jean-Francois Avon, Montreal QC Canada "One of theses centuries, the brutes, private or public, who believe that they can rule their betters by force, will learn the lesson of what happens when brute force encounters mind and force." - Ragnar Danneskjold PGP key at: http://w3.citenet.net/users/jf_avon ID# C58ADD0D : 529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891