Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 16:47:00 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jon_slivko@simphost.com>, Melon <melon@orangenetwork.net> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 137/udp Message-ID: <p04330103b64c79d6c59c@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011301218460.20796-100000@alpha.simphost.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011301218460.20796-100000@alpha.simphost.com>
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At 12:22 PM -0700 11/30/00, Jonathan M. Slivko wrote: >I know that my response to this e-mail isn't technical, but >a comment on some of the language used on this mail that I >am replying to. Apparently, someone out there seems to think >that all the teen computer users out there are stupid kids. Please leave the politically-correct posturing off this list. The "language" used was perfectly fine. He did not in any way insult "all the teen users" anywhere. He said: > > I expect some stupid kids attacked me. > > However, is there any exception? Assuming you were not gratuitously searching for an insult, all he said was "the people who attacked me were stupid kids", and not "all kids are stupid, and I think a few of those kids -- who by definition must be stupid because I have used the word 'kid' -- have attacked me". Pulling out the PC police force on such a benign statement is much more obnoxious than the original statement was. There was no swearing, no blanket statements of condemnation, just a comment that the attack seemed to be from some stupid kids. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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