From: crick@lenti.med.umn.edu (Ed Crick (CD))
Subject: Censorship (was Crick and Banerjee)
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 00:58:36 GMT

In article <aa.725562789@hela.iti.org> aa@iti.org (Aayush Asthana) writes:
>Once more, this is not a flame.  For those not interested in this
>reply, hit the `n` key.
>
>
>Sigh.  Mr. Ed <a la dummy a/c> opines correctly that free speech is

Have you now stooped to petty insults and name-games?  And you said this is
not a flame, how the noble has fallen from his pedestal.  Beware of such an
affront, as I may report you to your system administrator.  And while we're
on the topic of insults, you have yet to produce evidence of my gratuitous use
of 4-letter words.  First you indulge in brazen McCarthyism with your 
ungrounded accusations, and then when called to support your claims you avoid
the topic entirely. When I said that someone (maybe you, maybe not) is
a deformed, abandoned waif raised by whores and beggars, that is not a common
vulgar expression, rather an evocative use of language.  Try to separate the
two.

>keyboard with dexterity [which is fine] .. since the apology was
>sincere then aforementioned Crick did cause sufficient pain. 

You were in sufficient pain?  How so, as you were not the target of the flames,
only Nimmala and his cohorts.  So why would one person complain to force the
system administrator to demand said apology, unless he felt his virgin
sensitivities being raped by the post, an act easily avoidable with "n."

>
>As for why publicly now:  observe how useful the Usenet is, for
>every user posting directly, there are scores of others who do not
>waste bandwidth.   Every system administrator knows the limits of
>sanctions they can place on their users; and they encourage users to
>participate in such informal `governance' mechanisms as it is most
>efficient [quicker payback: less volume of bandwidth required for
>faster corrective action] and democratic [consensus].  It is an
>extremely diplomatic means:  the weight of opinion generated
>determines the extent of the reprimand/rebuke.  And in the end

And in your case, you seek to throw your weight around by whining to several
system administrators.  But do you reserve your complaints to those posts only
on SCI?  It would seem that a white knight such as yourself, who champions
conservative use of bandwidth would joust against other wasteful groups such
as alt.sex.homosexual.etc., truly a waste of bandwidth, or do you prefer to
read such groups in their uncensored length?  

The venomous atmosphere of ruthless SCI flame wars is not a place for dainties
who stand to smudge their frocks, and the ability to skip posts allows there
to be no "innocent bystanders," only curious rubbernecks.

>						 Good Day, Mr. Ed

Again, another snide reference, should I email postmaster@iti.org and file
my disapproval?  Be that as you would have it, at least I lay claim to the
talking end of the horse, the other end is all yours.
>
>[] Regards,   | Industrial    :      _________ ___________ ___________
>Aayush Asthana| Technology    :    /___   ___//___    ___//___    ___/
>aa@iti.org    | Institute     :   ____/  /___    /  /    ____/  /____ 

Ed Crick