benson@alcatraz.UUCP (06/07/87)
This may be repetitious, but: I would love to see this issue go away. In fact, I won't post anything else on the subject until and unless I see more incitement-to-riot in the form of insults, snide remarks, blatantly anti-women or just plain anti-social messages, or whatever. In fact, if a few more people sent me mail or posted messages indicating that the anti-mark frothing at the keyboard is the attitude of a fast-fingered few, rather than the general community, then I may just start ignoring the the frothers and hope that they go away. (Of course, I'm sure that some other folks are thinking the same about me.) Perhaps the bottom line is this: if the people who don't like what mark has to say will learn to use the j key, I will learn to use it to. If there are reams and reams of attacks on mark and his right to his opinions and expression (and as usual, I'm not arguing about his right to an account on any particular system), then I will unlearn to use the j key. I don't exactly know what I'm accomplishing, or why anyone should care what I think or what I post. If all of us would learn to ignore what we don't like, then we wouldn't have these orgies. But no, we all seem to need to answer and answer again. The only message that is REALLY above the fray is NO MESSAGE AT ALL. No matter how high you point your nose while typing, you are still trying to have the last word, even as I may be right now. So I suppose I'm tossing down a gauntlet: if you really think that mark (or I, or anyone else) is O(ut)-T(o)-L(unch), then vote by failing to dignify his and my postings with replies. If you reply, you demonstrate by your actions that what you claim to disdain really does have some significance for you. Benson I. Margulies Kendall Square Research Corp. harvard!ksr!benson All comments the responsibility ksr!benson@harvard.harvard.edu of the author, if anyone.