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



John Palmer writes:
> > 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?
> 
> I have no idea wether he did it or not, but you people in the IAHC
> should realize that people, when faced with having everything taken
> from them, when faced with the loss of 18 months hard work because a
> socialist politboro took a simple mandate (polish up Draft-Postel a
> little) and cranked out one of the most offensive pieces of totalitarian
> crap that the world has ever seen, people will tend to fight back to
> save their livelyhood and hard work.

"Most offensive pieces of totalitarian crap."

Can I invoke Godwin's Law?

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