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From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
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Subject: Re: AT&T Long Distance Boycott (was: BNR2SS, Mach, and The Lawsuit)
Message-ID: <1992Sep1.180222.20077@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
Date: 1 Sep 92 18:02:22 GMT
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In article <1992Sep1.130800.14354@news.acns.nwu.edu> learn@speedy.acns.nwu.edu (William J. Vajk) writes:
>>First, it does not affect "all of us."
>I am once again dismayed at the responses made by supposedly
>intelligent individuals to affairs which do indeed affect all
>of us. Perhaps some people simply don't se the connections.
An article about voting for a particular presidential candidate affects all of
us too. Even if you're not a US citizen or resident, the US has enough
world-wide influence that which president is elected is probably going to have
some indirect on you. Should such an article be posted to a thousand-odd
newsgroups?
Anyone can get heart disease. Should I post articles about cholesterol in
gnu.misc.discuss because it affects "all of us" and so can go to every
newsgroup on the net?
--
"the bogosity in a field equals the bogosity imported from related areas, plus
the bogosity generated internally, minus the bogosity expelled or otherwise
disposed of." -- K. Eric Drexler
Ken Arromdee (UUCP: ....!jhunix!arromdee; BITNET: arromdee@jhuvm;
INTERNET: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu)