jwalsh@bbn.com (Jamie Walsh) (12/06/88)
The actions of Jonathan Richmond remind me of a scene in a Mel Brooks or
Woody Allen movie, where when a plane full of Jews is told their flight
will be delayed, they stand up and start chanting "Never again! Never
again!"
When Richmond couldn't drum up sufficient support of his "no offensive
jokes" proposal through the proper channels on the network, and finding he
couldn't put company pressure on Brad because Brad was his own employer, he
decided to play net.thought.police by taking it to the newspapers and
university officials (and according to yesterday's Boston Herald, to the
FBI as well.)
From yesterday's Boston Herald :
"Richmond, 30, said he has contacted the FBI and the Jewish
Anti-Defamation League to help him get a computer network called USENET
either censored or off the air."
It is a pity that Richmond was so busy screaming "Never again" that he
failed to realized that he has not only jeoparized the feed of
rec.humor.funny, but the feed of all the non-computer related groups,
including soc.culture.jewish
-- jamie (jwalsh@cc6.bbn.com
!harvard!bbn!jwalsh)
"There's a seeker born every minute."