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To   : Chris Cranford
From : Michael Grant
Date : Tue Nov 27 2001 12:57 pm

Hello Chris.

27 Nov 01 20:48, you wrote to me:

 CC> -> took a posting in a public echo of a point of view that he did not
 CC> -> personally like, and turned it into a connection issue. There was
 CC> -> no technical reason to cut Ross Cassell's link, but only a reason
 CC> -> based on personal animosity and politics.

 CC> -> Behavior in echos is properly handled by moderator action, and not
 CC> -> buy punitive actions wrt echomail or netmail links. Make all the
 CC> -> rationalizations you want, it's still a morally repunant act for a
 CC> -> mail mover; and is absolutely unjustifiable.

 CC>   If timing isn't an issue, if additional hops isn't an issue, then
 CC>   can "we" discontinue using these as reasons to argue over the
 CC>   situation?

Why? So you can silence those that oppose the use of threats of link cuts as a 
weapon for the propogation of a political agenda? Forget it; I have every right 
to protest this sort of a threat; if you don't like it; tough; cut my feed, or 
cut my uplink's link, why don't you? Isolate yourself so that none that 
disagree with your points of view will ever be able to say anything against 
you. Fidonet will go on as it always has without you.


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