[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 11 October 2007 16:34:34 Frank Gilloon wrote:
I will report you and the others to the proper federal
authorities. And your ip.
May your day go as arrogantly as it has been.
I hope the rest of you will report this guy to his ISP as I have
done.
I appreciate your passionate objection to the way the man insulted folks
on- and off-list. And I recognize that this is an international mailing
list and that laws and mores and customs differ all around the globe.
But Mr. Gilloon's ISP is in Iowa, U.S.A., and unless he is guilty of
committing libel, or of posting porn, or of making direct threats to
harm someone, he is perfectly within his rights to express himself here
in the US. Of course, constitutional rights such as that precious First
Amendment are fast evaporating here in recent years, but as far as I
know no ISP would deny a customer the right to make an ass of himself,
short of the infractions I listed.
I agree with others that a positive and helpful mailing list culture can
pretty well be self-maintained by our response, or lack thereof, to
unwelcome behavior.
kazar
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