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- From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: [news.admin.policy] Re: Jim Bowery's offensive posting
- Message-ID: <Bz969q.412@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Followup-To: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,news.admin.policy
- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 14:15:25 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- [A repost - Carl]
-
- From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
- Newsgroups: news.admin.policy
- Subject: Re: Jim Bowery's offensive posting
- Message-ID: <8107@lib.tmc.edu>
- Date: 14 Dec 1992 10:53:52 GMT
-
- In article <Bz8Gpw.D3B@cs.uiuc.edu> kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) writes:
- >stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley) writes:
- >>Who is CAF-News, and who put them in a position of authority over all
- >>news admins? I.e., who cares what CAF-News thinks news admins should be
- >>doing?
- >CAF-News is just newsgroup alt.comp.acad-freedom.news. It neither has,
- >nor claims, authority over any news admins. Its articles, like the
- >articles in news.admin.policy, are just the opinion of their authors.
-
- Much as I hate to admit it, John has a point. ("There is no idea so good you
- cannot find a fool supporting it." -- Larry Niven) Carl, the site in question
- is _not_ an academic site, and so academic freedom does not apply. Further,
- your position in favor of completely unrestrictred free speech is not
- representative of anything outside the academic community, and is
- controversial even there. Who appointed you guardian of academic freedom,
- anyway?
-
- >ANNOTATED REFERENCES
-
- And another thing: Is there anyone else out there who finds Carl's practice of
- including voluminous references in _every_ article he posts as annoying as
- Hasan B Mutlu/Serdar Argic's similar practice?
- --
- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
- jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity.
- "All [Windows] NT has is a lot of journalists fooled." -- Brian Button
- --
- Carl Kadie -- I do not represent any organization; this is just me.
- = kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =
-