[Tfn-suggestions] Fw: MI-5,Persecution (use2) - Email Cruelty 11/3/96

[Robert Naughton]

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Subject: MI-5,Persecution (use2) - Email Cruelty 11/3/96


> From: D.S.Toube@qmw.ac.uk (David Toube)
> Newsgroups: uk.misc,uk.politics,uk.legal,uk.media,soc.culture.british
> Subject: Re: Why Censorship Must Not Be Allowed on Uk.*
> Reply-To: D.S.Toube@qmw.ac.uk
> Date: Mon Mar 11 11:47:13 1996
>
> A OSHINEYE <TA5330@QMWCC7.qmw.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> :D.S.Toube@qmw.ac.uk (David Toube) wrote:
> :>I would also be very pleased if Mike Corley would not mailbomb me
> :>via my university account with messages entitled 'This Is What
> :>You Get For Censorship', thus closing down the entire college
> :>email system.
> :>
> :>Although it does not personally inconvenience me, it is rather
> :>dull for the college.
>
> :When did this happen? BTW you can always use Pegasus Mail to send all
> :email from Corley's address back to him and see how he likes it.
> :--Ade
> :
> This weekend. The result, Mike Corley will be gratified to hear,
> was that all users of the college system were prevented from
> using email.
>
> I suspect that there is no stopping Mike Corley. If mail is
> automatically returned to him, he will return it back to you
> tenfold. If he is thrown off his account, as he surely will be,
> he will find another one.
>
> I do not care whether Mike Corley has an email account or not. It
> is a matter of supreme indifference to me whether his fanciful
> account of persecution is aired or not. If he thinks that he has
> been persecuted by M15 and Chris Tarrant, then that is a matter
> for him. But there is a world of difference between repeatedly
> spamming usenet - which is unacceptable - and setting up a Web
> Site containing his post, which is entirely acceptable. Then it
> will be possible to choose whether or not to partake of his
> fantasy.
>
> However although I would not like to see the censorship of posts
> because they demonstrate evidence of mental illness, I suspect
> that Mike Corley will inevitably be censored by his ISP following
> a number of complaints of usenet abuse and mailbombing.
>
> ----
> David Toube
> Lecturer in Law
> QMW, University of London
>
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