From declanm@netcom.com Fri Sep 1 13:52:33 1995 Return-Path: Received: from andrew.cmu.edu by mail3.netcom.com (8.6.12/Netcom) id MAA01389; Fri, 1 Sep 1995 12:00:37 -0700 Received: (from postman@localhost) by andrew.cmu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA12663; Fri, 1 Sep 1995 14:36:56 -0400 Received: via switchmail for fight-censorship+@andrew.cmu.edu; Fri, 1 Sep 1995 14:36:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from po3.andrew.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Fri, 1 Sep 1995 14:36:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from netcom.netcom.com (netcom.netcom.com [192.100.81.100]) by po3.andrew.cmu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id OAA24799 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 1995 14:36:11 -0400 Received: by netcom.netcom.com (8.6.12/Netcom) id KAA04261; Fri, 1 Sep 1995 10:53:53 -0700 Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 10:53:52 -0700 (PDT) From: D B McCullagh Subject: Re: Reader response (fwd) To: fight-censorship@andrew.cmu.edu cc: mddallara@msuvx2.memphis.edu Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: RO X-Status: The Fall 1995 issue of Carnegie Mellon magazine, a glossy alumni publication, featured a fatuous interview with Lisa Siegel, an alumna and one of the now-infamous Internet green card spamming attorneys. She recently published her "How to make a fortune on the Information Superhighway" book and is trying to promote it. (It apparently received a completely unflattering review in the latest Scientific American.) In the interview, Siegel moaned about being flamed on the 'net and supported CMU's Usenet "dirty pictures" censorship last fall, sparked by the Rimm study. (She was proud of CMU for taking those so-necessary steps.) Mark Dallara and a few other people posted Ann Curran's (mag editor's) letters-to-the-editor email address to a couple Usenet newsgroups, which prompted the following reply. -Declan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 01 Sep 1995 08:30:24 -0500 From: Mark Dallara To: ac1m+@andrew.cmu.edu Cc: hud@netcom.com, declan+@cmu.edu Subject: Re: Reader response >Sorry, I don't play the game of living up to YOUR expectations. I >consider your actions vicious and reprehensible under any system of >ethics. > > >Ann Curran, Editor >Carnegie Mellon Magazine >Carnegie Mellon University >Bramer House >Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213-3890 >Phone: 412-268-2132 >Fax: 412-268-6929 >ac1m@andrew.cmu.edu Sorry, but you've missed the point entirely. If you consider criticism to be "vicious and reprehensible", then you're in the wrong job. And let me remind you that YOUR MAGAZINE published your email address as the proper one for responses and letters to the editor. If you don't want honest feedback, you can always choose to not publish a fax number, email address, and snailmail address for responses, but that would be analagous to sticking your head in the sand. I offered candid criticism of the article, and encouraged others to do the same. Deal with it. -- Mark Dallara | Finger for Graduate Student | PGP public key. Biomedical Engineering | University of Memphis | Public Key Fingerprint: * Florida '93, Memphis '95 * | 33 54 17 8C 07 DF CE F9 aka "Beast" on the iFrag Server | 3B 15 B1 FE B4 17 87 DD http://www.mecca.org/BME/STUDENTS/mdallara.html --