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- From: betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz)
- Newsgroups: uno.cwis,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
- Subject: Re: Chain letters?
- Message-ID: <BETSYS.92Dec12210450@ra.cs.umb.edu>
- Date: 13 Dec 92 02:04:50 GMT
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- Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston
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- In-Reply-To: greeny@eff.org's message of 12 Dec 92 21: 58:20 GMT
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- I agree with Wes and Greeny. Any joke posting will die under its own
- weight. "Chain Letter" laws are supposed to apply to asking for money,
- and their doesn't seem to be any dispute about applying (US) mail
- fraud laws to (US) email. It's kinda silly to chase jokes.
-
- (I find myself chasing those stupid ANSI toy-train-Christmas-Cards
- every year. They play hell with dialup lines and non-ANSI terminals,
- but they come back along with ANSI .plans, which also break sessions.)
-
- Sexual harassment is another issue. As opposed as I am to sexual
- harassment, I think that a lot of schools are going overboard in
- reacting to sexism and racism, to the point of knee-jerk censorship.
- Carl Kadie's suggestion would be appropriate as a C.Y.A (Cover Your
- nether region) defense.
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