gsmith@BOSCO.BERKELEY.EDU.UUCP (01/01/70)
In article <1555@chinet.UUCP> rhonda@chinet.UUCP (Rhonda Scribner) writes: >In article <8709130218.AA19016@ragu> ragu!gsmith (Gene Ward Smith) writes: >>In any event, my >>complaint was not over who started the name-calling, but who >>started the letter-writing. As far as I can judge, you think it >>is Maroney's "free speech right" to write fabrications about me >>to the Mathematics department, but not Matthew Wiener's "free >>speech right" to annoy Maroney by posting to the net. >If they're fabrications, then it's not his right. Thank you. >So far, no one has seen >hide nor hair of these letters, at least no one on the net, so we cannot >judge whether they were fabrications or not. As I understand it, it is a violation of netiquette to publish e-mail to the net without permission. Of course, since I am supposedly a sort of cross between Godzilla and Don Rickles, this shouldn't matter to me. >It seems to me if they were >fabrciations your system administrators would have thought Maroney was >just a crackpot and dismissed him. To a certain extent, this is what they did. You don't understand the situation here and I am not inclined to explain it to you; your speculations are both spiteful and wrong. ucbvax!brahms!gsmith Gene Ward Smith/Brahmsgangster/Berkeley CA 94720 "There are no differences but differences of degree between degrees of difference and no difference"