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A conversation that's been going on in our notes system...

From: DANDOM%UMASS.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu (Dan Parmenter at Hampshire College)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 87 16:57 EDT
Subject: A conversation that's been going on in our notes system...
Resent-Date: Tue, 19 May 87 12:06:59 EDT
Resent-From: drukman%UMASS.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu (Jonathan S. Drukman)
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Resent-Subject: Here's something funny but << LONG >> - you have been warned.
Resent-To: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu




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 HAMP::CCS216KDR              Disambiguation Board            19-APR-1987 15:09
 Note 209.0                -< Katherine The Great >-                5 responses
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       And tho I walk through the valley of the shadow
        of pain and tears and agony
       My Roky and my Kate they comfort me
       Kate makes me down to lie anywhere she wants me to
       and in her infinite mercy and compassion
       pushes my metaphor with the most delicate touch.
       She is my most amazing savior,
       teaching as she strums,
       strumming as she preaches,
       and never letting anyone leach off her.
       Especially not some ultra-suave, pretentious jerk
       who calls himself a lover but could do nothing more
       than drag her down for his own glory.
       Boy, I'd hate that.
       And Roky(who's more than just a crisped out child of the sixties)
       he teahes us the darker side
       that I may walk in comfort
       and yea take refuge in the land of night
       and vampires, and conspiracies, and the undead
       ("Everything dies.  I know that what goes bump in the night is O.K.")
       And together, but especially Kate, they are my light,
       they are my hope,
       and my faith in existance,
       especially considering that neither have ever worked with Phil Spector.

       Amen.

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 HAMP::CCS216PSY              Disambiguation Board            19-APR-1987 19:03
 Note 209.1                -< Katherine The Great >-                     1 of 5
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Ah yes.  You speak truly, master KDR (are you related to CDR?)  For when I
haave felt the weight of the world upon my weak back and my homework is all
a semester overdue, Kate comforts me, and I do listen with great attention
and admiration, for it is true that she has never worked with Phil Spector,
neither Phil Collins, and yet she has written hit songs.  And these hit songs
are not merely pop for the masses, they are gems of great value to those of us
with posters on our walls and overdue divs.  It is for this reason that I,
a boy (a tall boy) who never reads this notesfile, respond to thy heartfelt
ode to Kate Bush, the wonder of the modern pop industry and stuff like that.
    My words grow lengthy, even unto the length of "Hysteresis" (which isn't
such a long word after all, I guess), so I must go.  Listen well, KDR, and let
me know if you hear of any new albums.

    Yours in Kate, PSY

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 HAMP::KDOMMER                Disambiguation Board            19-APR-1987 23:21
 Note 209.2                -< Katherine The Great >-                     2 of 5
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    Thank you so much, Brother Shirley, for that moving epiphany.
Here at the church of Our Kate of Perennial Warmth we welcome testimonials
from anyone who has had their life changed, nay saved, by Kate.

    Oh, Lionheart, I can feel her out there tonight.  Be with us.  'Cause
if ever the world needed you, it's right now.

    So put on your finest robes, crank your copy of "Never For Ever", get
with the rest of the congregation, and, Praise Her, we're gonna scream
"Babooshka" 'TILL WE CAN'T STAND IT NO MORE!

                               -THE RIGHT REVEREND KELLY DOMMER

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 HAMP::SHADES                 Disambiguation Board            20-APR-1987 01:56
 Note 209.3                -< Katherine The Great >-                     3 of 5
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-----------------+  AMHERST  (SG)-  The  popularly acclaimed  +--------------
ed  the  recipe  !  Right Reverend Kelly Dommer of The First  !  In   his   1
ked her for her  !  Church  of  Gimmie  Kate or Gimmie Death  !  Linguistic
he gave  it  to  !  has pleaded "maybe" to charges  that  he  !  Gazdar  ask
would be $15 to  !  gave  money  to  an ex-mistress to "shut  !  "Consider
 $200]           !  her  fat  trap.to libel or slander.

Read the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.  You'll get paranoid
too.  A casual reading of that bill (what an ignorant, defective
piece of legislation!)  suggests that as a systems administrator, I'm
responsible for everything on my machine.  But it also suggests that
I'm in trouble if I read confidential files.  Damned if I do, damned
if I don't.  BBS operators are being prosecuted.  So is a Usenet site
a BBS?  Well, this will all be settled at some point.  I can't wait
for someone to post a stolen credit card number on the net.

As for the Usenet/newspaper analogy:  supposedly Doug Alan is the
moderator.  One could make a case that this puts him in the same
position as a magazine editor.  A magazine editor has no legal
problems if he prints the word "fuck".  A magazine editor could be in
serious trouble if he prints statements saying that a private
individual is a crook, etc.  (For public figures "actual malice" and
"reckless disregard for the truth" must be shown and there's a lot
more freedom -- I can say "Reagan's a crook" with a lot less worry
than I can say "Tim W.  is a crook").  

>a similar scenario involving personal matters.  For instance, suppose that
>Sue T. wanted to bring action against USENET for remarks made by Tim W.  At
>whom would she direct the action.  Certainly not at the host administrator
>of some company who happens to receive information over the net.  Maybe it
>can be directed at the net for allowing the information to be there?

Why not?  Standard practice in lawsuits these days is to sue
everyone, make the proceedings as complex and messy as possible, and
get people to settle out of court, conceding defeat without a trial.
As I said before, the moderator is the biggest sitting duck, because
it's easy to prove his association with gaffa.  

By the way, please don't associate me with Tipper Gore and her gang;
there should be no limits on what can be recorded and no rating
system.  I support Jello Biafra!

>album music (i.e., censorship).  The writer of the letter suggested that
>he didn't mind those 4 letter words but that he would like to be able to
>protect his childern from the likes of Motely Crue's 'God Bless the Childern
>of the Beast'.

This is not what I'm saying at all.  No rating system, no record
bans.  I'm only against vile personal attacks on contributors to the list,
and I suggest that the moderator return such attacks to their senders.
Attacks on public figures (Madonna! gag me) are fair game.

This will probably be my last message on this subject; this list
should discuss music.
-- 
- Joe Buck    jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM  (in the brave new world of domains!)
		{sun,seismo,ucbvax,smart-site}!epimass.epi.com!jbuck