krm (09/27/82)
My sincere and humble apologies to those adversely affected by my net.joke/net.jokes error, and thanks for the courtesy afforded me in pointing out my error. Rich Magill CWRU
kfk@ccieng2.UUCP (09/06/83)
Ladies and Gentlemen of the net: I would like to apologize for the placement of my article on the use of firearms in net.general. It seems I offended a significant fraction of of the net population by placing it there. It was not intended to of- fend. Please allow me to explain. The discussion to which I referred started out in net.general about 2 weeks ago, when a person posted an article titled, "The wheels of jus- tice turn slowly ..." after which an article appeared in response to it which took an argumentative point of view on the subject. I felt I should respond, but I knew that net.general was not quite the place. Therefore, I put my article in both net.general and net.flame, with a note in the article explaining that I was trying to move the discussion permanently to net.flame. Really, folks, it *was* a serious attempt to move the discussion to net.flame. (Does such a "move" protocol exist?) Again, I apologize to all those I offended. This is written exclusively in response to the mail I have received. I haven't even seen the news yet today, having been gone over the Labor Day weekend. ============== Karl Kleinpaste ===============
leo@uf-csv.UUCP (Leo Wilson [staff]) (10/05/84)
<byte this, bug!>
I am posting this to apologize to anybody who may have been offended or
mislead by any article or mail I may have posted before I added a disclaimer
to my .signature file. Please refer to the following disclaimer and apply
it to any misconception you may have succumbed to during my period of
thoughtlessness.
--
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed herein are solely those of the author
and do not under any cicumstances reflect those of the University
of Florida, its Computer and Information Science Department, or any
other affiliate or employee of them.
Leo Wilson
akgua!uf-csv(!uf-csg)!leo
CSNET: leo @ ufl
USPS: University of Florida
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Gainesville, FL 32611
AT&T: (904)392-2371
"There are two kinds of aircraft: Fighters and Targets."geb@cadre.UUCP (10/09/84)
I would be interested in knowing if you were forced by your employers to post this "apology". I think these disclaimers are ridiculous! Is there anyone on the net stupid enough to believe that articles posted by people are officially being posted by the employer, or that the employee can speak for the employer? Anyone who thinks that is an idiot! I suspect some lawyer or would-be lawyer got worried about the legal consequences of some flame, since the computer is owned by them. Does anyone have a solution to this problem? What percentage of net traffic could be saved if these disclaimers were deleted?
addw@root44.UUCP (Alain Williams) (10/23/84)
I agree that the whole idea of an employers disclaimer is a bit silly.
But I can see that some lawyers could go round getting worried (or rather
getting company management worried -they have got to justify their existence
somehow).
Maybe we could update netiquette so that a disclaimer is to always be
assumed -unless explicitly stated.
Alain Williams,
Root Computers Ltd, London, England.
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root44!{rootcl|rootis}!addwtrw@pyramid.UUCP (Tom Wise) (01/07/85)
To everyone in netland, PLEASE forgive my posting of test to
these nets. I was successful in posting to ba.test, but had no
luck posting my request to either net.general or net.auto. It
took some effort on my part and questions of several co-workers
before I was able to get ANYTHING posted to these newsgroups.
Once again, my apologies.
TomMW9@PSUVM.BITNET (07/11/86)
When I posted my article on VM systems on the net I only wanted people
to know that when talking about systems on the net they should not
exclude VM, which they usually do. My "flame" on Unix was so preposterous
I thought everyone would see the humor with which it was intended.
If anyone was *truly* offended (think carefully, were you offended or
did you just want to flame?) then I truly apologize to that person.
But in these times of wars and inflations and all that, don't you think
we could use a sense of humor? I do. Laugh at life and life won't hurt
you as much. Ok?
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Michael S. Weiss
The Pennsylvania State University
MW9@PSUVM.BITNET
"I don't practice what I preach because
I'm not the type of person I'm preaching to." - J.R. "Bob" Dobbs
All my opinions were bought at Opinions-R-Us during their fall clearance.