Re: Christmas Interruptions (and SPAM)
Jonathan Robie (jwrobie@mindspring.com)
Tue, 23 Dec 1997 15:36:37 -0500
At 11:17 AM 12/23/97 -0500, Steven R. Newcomb wrote:
>No. As a practical matter, where obnoxious anonymous speech is
>concerned, there are only two choices: respond with counteracting
>speech, or pretend it's not happening and wait for it to stop.
>
>The former choice, responding with more speech, is at best a waste of
>our time. Nobody on this list is persuaded by this infantilism
>anyway, so there's nothing to counteract.
I hope you are right. After a racist spam like that, I think it is good
that Henry and Peter have treated this as a real problem, and I hope that
the blacks who participate on this list know that they are welcome here.
Jonathan
jonathan@texcel.no
Texcel Research
http://www.texcel.no