From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 15:09:53 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Anguilla...etc.
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At 3:25 AM 8/14/96 Moscow Time, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTD wrote:
>"Greg Kucharo" <sophi@best.com> writes:
>>   While Tim may be right that nobility is lost when backing down to the
>> authorities, the fact is that this game has little to do with noble
>> purposes. ...
>
>Nor was there any activity from the authorities.
>
>A while back, when Vince first started advertizing his site, I asked him a few
>hypothetical questions, and he said roughly this: If client X posts something
>to Usenet from Vince's site, and if Y dislikes X's article so much that he
>mailbombs X, then Vince would pull X's plug. (I have the exact quote saved.)
>I lost interest right then. I'm not surprised that Vince acted dishonorably by
>pulling a client's plug with no warning for a very flimsy reason.

"Acted dishonorably"?

Really, Dimitri, are all Russians this rude? (Seeing the battles on Usenet
between the "Sovoks" and the "Gruborbots," I'm beginning to think so.)

While I think the Anguilla situation is an interesting one to analyze, I
avoid such loaded terms as "dishonorable."

--Tim May

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