From: Bo Xiong <xiong@BSU-CS.BSU.EDU>
Subject:      Forwarding: Don't Be an Ugly Chinaman (Was Re: NEWS: Survey ...)
Reply-To: Bo Xiong <xiong@BSU-CS.BSU.EDU>
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 20:27:29 GMT
Comments: To: china-nt@uga.cc.uga.edu

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From: Sanyee_Tang@mindlink.bc.ca (Sanyee Tang)
Subject: Don't Be an Ugly Chinaman (Was Re: NEWS: Survey Article ...)
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 05:51:55 GMT

    The subject line was modified by Bo Xiong once, however, I would like
to change it to a more appropriate one: "Don't Be an Ugly Chinaman."

> A netter once active on SCC, China-net, and SUMFN champaign, was accused
> by some unknown person(s) on these nets, as being CCP spy.  His office was
> raided by security people on July 31, 1992.  All his email files on SUMFN
> were confiscated.

    It is your guess or you have hard evidence that someone on this net
snitched him?  I do see netters turn to other's system manager to complain
on dirty language.  But politically, Scott Horne seems to be the only known
informant :-).

    It is a shame if some netters sent small report to suppress different
opinion.  On the other side, it is also very ugly to abuse the governmental
privilege, though it is the things a typical ugly Chinaman would very much
tend to do.

> After 4 months' investigation, now his spy suspect was cleaned.  However,
> Government still decided that he was guilty of misuse of Government's
> property (email/network).

    Universities don't care how you use E-mail (probably it is only true
in North America, in other places universities do care), E-mail is virtually
a freebie and you are not supposed to pursue narrow interests only.  But
is there anyone who dares to organize a campaign without any relation to
the job he is paid for, yet using his company's system?  Unless he is ready
to quit :-).  My company does have internet access, nevertheless, I paid
$200.00 annual fee to buy this commercial account for my personal use, in
order to avoid exactly the kind of event happened to this guy.

     Here is North American, even a cabinet member drives to the office by
himself.  Whom do you think you are that you should expect nothing would ever
happen to you yet fool around like an ugly Chinaman?  Untouchable born with
a silver spoon in the mouth?  A GaoGan's son?

    Furthermore, we could well work in a place where are tonnes of national
secrets, say, Los Almos weapon laboratory or NASA.  How could one believe
the big brother is not watching, when you sent out hundreds E-mail from a
government site?  There are government computer system auditors and there
are FBI special system tasks.  Don't lose your mind even if your "heart's
jugular veins were clogged with pennies" :-).

    I am disappointed by some responses to this event.  What is the lesson
we should learn?  To be a mature and ethical man at the first place?  Or to
evade tax, cheat on welfare, and abuse job-related privilege with smarter
tricks?  Or to blame others when one got caught?  Oh, ugly Chinaman, are you
going to be even uglier?

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