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- From: duggan@cc.gatech.edu (Rick Duggan)
- Subject: Re: Advice Needed : How to contain a net defamation campaign ?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.232512.8974@cc.gatech.edu>
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- Organization: College of Computing
- References: <92204.050230U53644@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 23:25:12 GMT
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- In article <92204.050230U53644@uicvm.uic.edu> <U53644@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
- >I beg the indulgence of the reader, I know that this is irregular, however....
- >
- > I have found myself in an odd situation, and I'm not sure how to deal with
- >it. A short time ago, I had posted a series of articles in the new group
- >sci.research.careers. A certain Mr. Toreki took exception to them, and
- >responded by attributing comments to me that I never made, and which would cast
- >me in a rather damaging light.
- >
- >For example : That I had said that most professors in grad school were tyrants,
- > That graduate school was an Orwellian experience,
- > That one should never be willing to work for a business,
- > That one couldn't possibly get a job no matter what, so why
- > bother
- >
- >All of which is almost the opposite of what I had actually said. Now, I
- >immediately started getting volumes of fairly obscene hate mail, and found that
- >I was being given a reputation that would be, to say the least, one that
- >would not be helpful in my future career. Repeated urgings to the people in
- >that group to read the posts before commenting on them, and the truthful
- >statement that I was being credited with statements that I hadn't made seemed
- >to have no impact. The same rumors were being passed on. The attitude was even
-
- I would not normally intrude on these newsgroups, but Mr. Dunphy is
- (as you may have guessed) not telling the complete story here.
- At one point in his postings to sci.research.careers, he stated something
- to the effect that telling half the truth is equivalent to lying. And
- here he is conveniently leaving out parts of the story.
-
- Your repeated urgings consisted of urgings plus calling those
- you disagreed with (and I quote) ``bloody stupid'', ``not playing
- with a full deck of cards'', ``an idiot'', and ``an imbecile''.
- That did more to discredit you with many of the sci.research.careers
- people than anything else. Your personal opinions were (and
- are) more than welcome. However, a bit of net courtesy would
- be appreciated. I will not ignore the point you make about obscene
- e-mail. As I have stated, there is no need for that, and it
- is extremely inappropriate. However, calling everyone who sends
- (or thinks about sending) you email that *merely disagrees
- with your position* an ``e-dweeb'' does not endear one to the net.
-
- >expressed that whether or not I was being misquoted was irrelevant !
- >
- >The question is : How do I put a stop to this sort of thing ?
-
- You put a stop to this sort of thing by not personally insulting
- everyone with whom you disagree. You put a stop to this sort
- of thing by learning something about the net before you post.
- You put a stop to this sort of thing by proving your point
- with facts, not by repeating yourself 5 times.
-
- >
- > Having interests in research, and working in preperation for
- > private sector work as I am (Math/EE), and partially supporting
- > myself with consulting work as I do, I really don't need to have
- > this kind of rumor spread.
-
- Rumor? I have multiple postings of you calling people names. There
- is no rumor in that (unless the postings were forged, which I don't
- believe to be the case).
-
- -rick
-
- "Random acts of violence just don't do it for me anymore. It must be
- maturity." - Cactus Jack WCW Saturday Night 07/04/92
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