Re: elvis@graceland.com: Re: Postel's Draft

[Kevin Brown <kevinbr@netcomm.ie>]

Guys,

Re-read this carefully, and think....what is the law regarding killing
alians from space? Someone, who has a flippant and dismissis character
wrote a fantasy email in the guise as an alian from space.

Someone else in the SAME flippant tone replied, good now we can kill you (
I am assuming that that person meant becasue the other person was an alien).

Don't forget someone was arrested once for stating that he was going to" do
the bitch tonight, I can't take it anymore" in an email that was
intercepted by his employer. He meant he was going to get his cat fixed,
and she was driving him crazy.

Jesus, you guys are getting unreal. Face it Perry is a flippant
unresponsive person, and he  wrote a fantasy email, and got a fantasy
response.

Could we get rid of Perry and go back to serious work?

I say clearly, death to all Aliens!!! Now want to report me to US
Marshalls?....Newsflash Mad Irish threatens to kill aliens...... Thump
Thump Thump....Heloooo Out there? Where is your sense of humour?

I once told a Cop in Dallas as I put a paperback through the xray machine:
Yes it is a very explosive book." He looked at me and said Sir, I could
arrest you for that remark. Did he have a sense of humour? No. Did the
airplane explode? No.

You guys are a hooot and a half. If we treat the threat to kill an alian
seriously, then we have to take Perry seriously, and thus he is insane,
because there are no Aliens here, and insane people should not be on the
IAHC commitee. Perry mail could be the crucila piece of evidence to have
him declared hostile flippant unresponsive and insane.

Do I believe Perry is insane? NO! Do I believe he is flippant ? YES! Do I
belive Simon will Kill and Alien? NO! They don't exist.

Where will this end?

Kevin
Jim Fleming, I am coming into your camp, don't shoot, this IANA IAHC list
is now so full of shit.......


At 7:09 +0300 2/1/97, Michael Dillon wrote:
>On Wed, 1 Jan 1997, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
>> Anyone here think this is an actual death threat from Simon Higgs (the
>> owner of graceland.com and most certainly the owner of the machine
>> that delivered this message to my mail server) or is it just chaff that
>> I should be ignoring?
>
>> From: elvis@graceland.com
>
>> Cool. Now we have a valid reason to kill you.
>
>IMHO, death threats are like bomb threats in an airport. They should
>always be taken seriously and reported to the police no matter how silly
>they may seem. You and I are not trained to distinguish real death threats
>from idle chit-chat. That is a job for the police.
>
>We also don't know if Simon Higgs has been making death threats to other
>people nor can we judge his level of sanity. If the police have received
>other complaints about him, your note could be the piece of evidence that
>spurs them into action, possibly saving someone's life.
>
>This is not the first time people involved in the TLD debates have issued
>death threats. In at least one other instance, the question was asked
>whether it should be reported to the police and my answer was
>substantially the same. Yes, report it to the police and let them make the
>decision whether there is any substance to it or not.
>
>
>Michael Dillon                   -               Internet & ISP Consulting
>Memra Software Inc.              -                  Fax: +1-604-546-3049
>http://www.memra.com             -               E-mail: michael@memra.com


////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
     Kevin Brown            | N \  We operate in Ireland
       NetComm              | e /  and the Middle East
Unix Training, Consultancy  | t \  --IRELAND--
     Networking             | C /  Voice: 353-1-282-7342
                            | o \  Fax: 353-1-282-7342
    Sun Microsystems        | m /  --DUBAI--
   Internet Associate       | m \  Voice: 971-4-491476
                            |   /  Fax: 971-4-492957
                            |   \  email: kevinbr@netcomm.ie
                            |   /           (Internet)
                            |   \

\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

Coming soon.......our UK office in Wokingham will open!