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

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Dick,

  Are we ever going to end this thread?  It is reaching unreasonable
perportions in my mind.  I don't care one bit what John wrote in 
his response.  I just think it has no relevance to the REAL issues,
that's all.  I can understand his obvious anger.  Though I think
it is a bit overstated.  Adding to this stuff is not making the
situation any better.

  What I have noticed is alot of back biting and attempts at
discrediting people on this list.  That is unessasary and
not productive.  I have been attacked here as well, but I 
just discount that stuff.  I am confident enough in myself 
not to take it seriously.  

  If Simon really meant a death threat, which I doubt,
than it is up to Perry to take what ever action he believes
is proper.  

Dick desJardins wrote:
> 
> John, you should be more careful with your discourse on
> Internet discussion lists.  This is beyond the range of
> acceptable discourse:
> 
> >socialist politboro ... most offensive pieces of totalitarian
> >crap that the world has ever seen ... if someone really took away
> >everything that I had and did
> >it for some liberal political cause, that I would go out in a blaze of
> >glory, taking as many of them with me as possible. ... >You people
> >on the ad-hoc cmte will just have to watch your back. When
> >you perpetrate an act of opression on people, you have to expect
> >them to be mad, as some may go to extremes.
> 
> Obviously, as you are one of the people that have been the
> most vocal as to your investment in .EARTH and .USA, any
> reasonable person would include you in the "they" that you
> write about.  I'm not a lawyer or a policeman, but I believe
> you are treading on the wrong side of the line here.
> 
> The people who say that any death threat, explicit or implicit,
> is illegal, are correct.  And certainly not allowed on Internet
> discussion lists.  Period.
> 
> Dick desJardins, speaking for myself
> ----
> 
> At 4:29 AM -0500 1/2/97, John Palmer 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?
> >> >
> >> > Perry
> >
> >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.
> >
> >I know that, if someone really took away everything that I had and did
> >it for some liberal political cause, that I would go out in a blaze of
> >glory, taking as many of them with me as possible.
> >
> >You people on the ad-hoc cmte will just have to watch your back. When
> >you perpetrate an act of opression on people, you have to expect them
> >to be mad, as some may go to extremes. Perhaps you ought to hire the
> >same people who guard Saddam Hussein - he seems to have survived alot
> >of hit attempts.
> >
> >Happy New Year
> 
> Dick desJardins
> EOS Network Manager
> GSFC Code 505, Greenbelt MD  20771
> Phone 301-614-5329        FAX  -5267

Regards,
-- 
Jeffrey A. Williams
DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java Development Eng.
Information Eng. Group. 
Phone :972-447-1878
E-Mail jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com