From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Subject: Re: COMPUSERVE under Full Active UDP
Date: 23 Nov 1997 00:00:00 GMT
Message-ID: <EK2svp.nzF@ferret.ocunix.on.ca>
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Organization: eh?
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In article <65714i$mf7@shell2.shore.net>, Fred Cherry <john1@shore.net> wrote:


> Lysander Spooner wrote:

> > I suppose it might have been better if the letters U-D-P were in the
> > subject-line of the threads, but what purpose would have been served
> > by a long drawn-out discussion? The "usual suspects" would show up
> > and call us pedophiles. Lots of people would tell us that we should
> > UDP _their_ Evil-ISP-of-Choice instead, and flame-wars would ensue
> > about why foo.net deserves it more than bar.net. etc etc.

> I guess you don't remember President Harry Truman. Truman said: "If you
> can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."


Lysander knows it quite well, I assure you.


> By the way, who are the "usual suspects" who would show up and call you
> pedophiles? Tell us, please, who they are.


Does the phrase GruBoursyVulisMaharajJamesGonsalezGoat mean anything to you?


> You think you have problems with people calling you pedophiles? Just try
> posting something in response to a post by NAMBLA (The North American Man-
> Boy Love Association - the largest and most powerful organization of
> homosexual child-molesters in the world). If your response criticizes
> NAMBLA, you can expect anything to happen, from mailbombs to mass
> complaints to your ISP provider demanding that your ISP provider silence
> you. Here is just ONE example of the problems I have had with a NAMBLA
> supporter:


T'is nothing comparatively speaking.
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