Re: CD of all Files on Asimov

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <51aom9$1b9@crl12.crl.com>, Sam Ismail <dastar@crl.com> wrote:
>Nathan Mates (nathan@visi.com) wrote:
>Nathan, I used to think you were sensible and reasonable.  This final
>message has made me realize you are a serious mental case and need some
>help.  Your over-zealous attempts to regulate the petty distribution of
>mostly long-forgotten software on a dead platform has backfired on you,
>and now you can't take it and are cracking under the pressure.  You're
>threatening to sick every law enforcement body in the U.S. as well as
>your system administrators on anyone who crosses you, and now you are
>practically invoking the name of the almighty god himself unless all
>the piraters bow down before you and lick the toe-jam from between your
>toes.  You are demented.  More over, you are annoying.  I wish you would
>shut up.

   Look, bud. Hacking accounts is illegal. Mailbombing is grounds for
account termination, and a nasty note from the recipient's sysadmin.
(Something like 2400 messages sent my way in the first 20 minutes.  If
you don't mind wading through that many messages, I could send you
each file from a legitimate Apple II site. After getting written
assurances from you and your sysadmin that they'll allow such a
demonstration of what a mailbomb is.) You do that to ANYONE, you're in
trouble. Not just someone who happens to be in your face about your
being a jackass.

   Telling people that they'll get in trouble for breaking the law is
unfashionable these days. Tough shit.

   As soon as Asimov goes down and doesn't reappear elsewher, I'll
shut up on the issue. So, if you want me quiet, drop a note to
Asimov's admins. 

Nathan Mates
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