Subj : Plea for Sanity
To   : All
From : Tom Hall
Date : Sun Jan 27 2002 01:20 am

Hello everybody.

Could we PLEASE get a grip here? Outsider is determined to cloak his true 
identity, and the fact is, there's nothing anyone can do about it. No one can 
cut his feed, blow up his computer, or make him go blind.

If you find his presence, or his name, eye color, choice of after-shave, etc. 
unappealing -- then IGNORE him!

Newgroup readers have filters. Even most Fidonet mail readers have twit 
settings that can be used to spare one the angst of having to read undesirable 
messages.

This endless harping on his insistence on not providing a real name is more 
annoying than anything I've seen him say so far.

If he is in fact nothing more than a troll, then you're playing right into his 
game by bitching at him.

If no one responds to anything he says as "Outsider", then perhaps he'll either 
change his handle, or go away. He won't do EITHER as long as people continue to 
harangue him about it.


Tom

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