Newsgroups: alt.activism
Subject: Public warning, J*m
From: demon@desire.wright.edu (Stupendous Man)
Date: 14 Aug 92 17:16:39 EST
Followup-To: alt.activism
Organization: Demonic Possesions, Inc.

In article <16gofkINNf74@agate.berkeley.edu>, jym@remarque.berkeley.edu (Jym Dyer) writes:
> 	<1992Aug13.215356.24987@oracle.us.oracle.com>
> 	<1992Aug13.220747.25591@oracle.us.oracle.com>
> NNTP-Posting-Host: remarque.berkeley.edu
> 
> [Note that this is a discussion, not activism, and thus does not
> belong in alt.activism.  Followups to alt.activism.d *only*.]
> 
>>>> A few years ago somebody ran a 'Jym boycott' campaign by
>>>> recommending that people email a posting Jym made back to
>>>> him. Jym's reaction? He howled so loud I could hear him here
>>>> in Michigan. He then demanded an apology. 
>>> Seems to me you have trouble distinguishing between
>>> harrassment disguised as boycott, and actual boycott.
>> Jym was advocating a "phone zap" - phoning up a company on
>> their 800 number to berate them and waster [sic] their money
>> and tie up their phones.
> 
> =o= You seem to be confused.  ACT UP's "phone zaps" are meant
> to communicate a message.  This is not by any means the same
> as berating or harrassment.
> 
> =o= Seeing as how in the hypothetical situation above I would
> be receiving only what I myself has posted, that situation could
> hardly be anything *but* harrassment.
> 
> =o= Note that I said "hypothetical."  Alan Sherzer's claims are
> fiction:  There was never actually a "Jym boycott", nor was
> there any howl, nor any demands for an apology.  Only one person
> has attempted to letterbomb me, and he ran afoul of some of the
> nasty daemons protecting my mailbox.  He did not repeat the
> attempt.
> 
> =o= Brett Wright ("demon@desire") did letterbomb Harel Barzilai
> in the manner described above.  There were complaints about
> that.  Perhaps this is what Mr. Sherzer is misremembering.

	J*m, you poor fool.  You can't even get my name "wright".  I did NOT
letterbomb H*r*l.  I was mailing back his posts with questions and comments. 
One (yes ONE) went without anything except the original message (due to an
error in the editor), for which I apologized.  In others there was so little 
information all I could write were things like "what the hell does this mean" 
in an attempt to get H*r*l to actually communicate instead of spew.  If he was
upset at the volume, then he should have considered what he was costing the net
in posting 3000 line messages.
	And the only one who ever "complained" was H*r*l himself, hiding behind
"root" on the workstation he posted from.  But my boss at Wright State was more
intelligent that the fools that H*r*l thinks occupy the US.  She knew bullshit
when she saw it.  She read H*r*l's posts and laughed.

	Consider yourself warned.  One more instance of such lies and you WILL
get a call from a lawyer.  And it WILL be for more than $25k.
                                                     
Brett                                                      
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