On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Gregor Hoffleit wrote: > On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:18:47PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > your right to free speech does not include the right to force anyone > > else to listen. > > I think Branden's whole point was that he doesn't like to be forced to > listen to something he's not able to respond to (to Ian's bug report, > that is) and that therefore he will just do this: not listen to Ian's > bug reports. So I think your argument doesn't work well here.
But a) he _was_ able to respond to it, the message just got delayed by three hours; and b) the bug report was from one of Ian's users, not Ian, and the drastic action would affect several of Ian's users, not just Ian. Yes, sure we could get other addresses that don't use SAUCE, but some of them might use DUL or some such, and then Joseph would be ranting ... (btw, Joseph, you and the rest of pacbell.net should be able to send mail to eng.cam.ac.uk addresses these days ...) Diana. -- + Diana Galletly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + + http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~galletly/ +
