Re: Anguilla...etc.

At 3:25 AM 8/14/96 Moscow Time, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTD wrote:
>"Greg Kucharo" <sophi@best.com> writes:
>>   While Tim may be right that nobility is lost when backing down to the
>> authorities, the fact is that this game has little to do with noble
>> purposes. ...
>
>Nor was there any activity from the authorities.
>
>A while back, when Vince first started advertizing his site, I asked him a few
>hypothetical questions, and he said roughly this: If client X posts something
>to Usenet from Vince's site, and if Y dislikes X's article so much that he
>mailbombs X, then Vince would pull X's plug. (I have the exact quote saved.)
>I lost interest right then. I'm not surprised that Vince acted dishonorably by
>pulling a client's plug with no warning for a very flimsy reason.

"Acted dishonorably"?

Really, Dimitri, are all Russians this rude? (Seeing the battles on Usenet
between the "Sovoks" and the "Gruborbots," I'm beginning to think so.)

While I think the Anguilla situation is an interesting one to analyze, I
avoid such loaded terms as "dishonorable."

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tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May) writes:
> At 3:25 AM 8/14/96 Moscow Time, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTD wrote:
> >"Greg Kucharo" <sophi@best.com> writes:
> >>   While Tim may be right that nobility is lost when backing down to the
> >> authorities, the fact is that this game has little to do with noble
> >> purposes. ...
> >
> >Nor was there any activity from the authorities.
> >
> >A while back, when Vince first started advertizing his site, I asked him a f
> >hypothetical questions, and he said roughly this: If client X posts somethin
> >to Usenet from Vince's site, and if Y dislikes X's article so much that he
> >mailbombs X, then Vince would pull X's plug. (I have the exact quote saved.)
> >I lost interest right then. I'm not surprised that Vince acted dishonorably
> >pulling a client's plug with no warning for a very flimsy reason.
>
> "Acted dishonorably"?
>
> Really, Dimitri, are all Russians this rude? (Seeing the battles on Usenet
> between the "Sovoks" and the "Gruborbots," I'm beginning to think so.)
>
> While I think the Anguilla situation is an interesting one to analyze, I
> avoid such loaded terms as "dishonorable."

If you don't see why Vince's actions are dishonorable (and, by the way, far
ruder than anything anyone could say on any mailing list), then there's
no sense in my wasting time to explain it to you.

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