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- From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
- Subject: Re: WELL anonymity policy
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.145200.25077@eff.org>
- Originator: rita@eff.org
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- Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
- References: <1h86l4INN4lo@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Dec22.231114.17085@eff.org> <1992Dec23.070621.1581@nntp.hut.fi>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 14:52:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.070621.1581@nntp.hut.fi> jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) writes:
-
- >One point that comes to my mind is the tone of the followups to the
- >raising of the question. The guy raises a reasonable question with a
- >polite tone (I read it like that, anyway), and gets back many quite
- >rude flames and ad hominem attacks.
-
- This was not the original poster's point. I may be a little
- vague on what it actually was (maybe through fault of my own), but I
- am fairly certain this wasn't it. And don't be such a kettle, because
- I've watched you do your share of flaming over the past year or so.
-
- >Also, it seems that the motivation and argumentation behind many of
- >the followups is personal relations to WELL and WELL management, and
- >some of the persons posting the somewhat less-than-polite answers are
- >working for the EFF. Somehow this feels a bit bad to me, and I don't
- >think it "gives a good impression".
-
- Ok, I know EFF bashing is a popular pasttime in this group.
- And do feel free to bash away (we all live for it). But exactly three
- paid staff members have posted on this thread. Cliff has not been
- rude. I haven't intended to be rude (and don't think I was). And
- Mike hasn't been rude either (which we are all aware he is quite
- capable of being).
-
- If we're going to twist this thread (as most of the others)
- into How EFF Staff Should Behave, let me know. I know it never occurs
- to you all that we, also, may have opinions on issues that we would
- like to express. Perhaps you would prefer that we just never
- participate in online discussions at all? Pretty strange twist when
- folks tell their advocates of free speech what they can't say what
- they want.
-
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