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- From: dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Dave Hayes)
- Subject: Re: Would you ALL like a demonstration? (was Re: Dave Hayes may be right)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.085458.14408@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Reply-To: dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov
- Organization: Jet Propulsion Lab - Pasadena, CA
- References: <1992Nov16.234506.23473@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <BxuLFo.7r8@unix.amherst.edu> <1992Nov18.004656.17483@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <BxwD6C.6yq@unix.amherst.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 08:54:58 GMT
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- twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
- >>>>a message of this form...that you should read it or risk losing your
- >>>>group name", that's deception?
- >>>Yes. About on the same level as pulling a malicious fire alarm.
- >>I dunno. No one would be hurt or killed in the stampede.
- >(a) The context of the net, Dave. For God's sake. Keep it in
- >context.
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- Well YOU didn't keep it there...;-)
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- >(b) The issue was deception. The act you propose is one of willful
- >deception, designed solely to send people into a screaming panic.
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- I wouldn't do exactly that. My thought was to bring a LARGE consensus of
- the net to the attention of the admins. I'd have to word the thing
- carefully, of course.
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- >Like pulling a fire alarm as a prank.
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- More like appearing on the 6 o'clock news.
- --
- Dave Hayes - Network & Communications Engineering - JPL / NASA - Pasadena CA
- dave@elxr.jpl.nasa.gov dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov ...usc!elroy!dxh
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- Don't teach the blind until you have practiced living with closed eyes
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