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- From: solan@smaug.uio.no (Svein Olav G. Nyberg)
- Subject: Re: Stephen Grossman
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.093202.13408@ulrik.uio.no>
- Sender: news@ulrik.uio.no (Mr News)
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- Reply-To: solan@smaug.uio.no (Svein Olav G. Nyberg)
- Organization: University of Oslo, Norway
- References: <spurrett.99.727386124@superbowl.und.ac.za>,<6owNXB1w165w@quake.sylmar.ca.us> <TORKEL.93Jan21223152@bast.sics.se>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 09:32:02 GMT
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- In article <TORKEL.93Jan21223152@bast.sics.se>, torkel@sics.se (Torkel
- Franzen) writes:
- |> In article <1993Jan21.202625.27001@ulrik.uio.no> solan@smauguio.no
- |> (Svein Olav G. Nyberg) writes:
- |>
- |> >I think it is important first to show that the guy is spreading
- |> >"abusive twaddle" on the net, however obvious it may seem to one-
- |> >self, regardless of person, for two reasons:
- |>
- |> You are of course free to try to correct Grossman. But your comments don't
- |> touch on the matter of his having a "right" to this.
-
- My conception of "right" is a much more pragmatic one than you believe,
- Torkel. I admit "rights" for another person only so far as I consider
- it to be in my own interest, with qualifiers "in the long run" and
- "totally". I believe my pragmatic evaluation was well supported by
- what I had to say.
-
- |> As for the pragmatic issue, it has long been clear that there is no point
- |> in trying to argue with Grossman.
-
- But then it is even less point in wasting your time just stating
- in non-nice words that you don't like him, as that just lowers the
- level of the list + consumes everybody's time + give people a lower
- opinion of you as a shit-thrower.
-
- At my program, "Author kill" is an option. Very useful.
-
-
- Solan
-