16 Aug 97 03:31, Elvis Hargrove wrote to Jackson Harding:
 EH> They _are_ indicative of why FLAME was dropped from the North American
 EH> Backbone though, Jackson.  They use their banning there to justify
 EH> infiltrating our peace and quiet.
Irregardless of the distasteful ramming this echo received this week, the 
same argument could be made for banning this echo.  Obviously, one of your 
readers did the ramming....should your echo be banned accordingly?
You doubt it was one of your readers?  Where did the rammer get my name (and 
yours, and everybody else involved here) if the miscreant doesn't at least 
lurk here?  I don't defend the action of the rammer, which annoyed me at 
least as much as you (since I downloaded 900+ messages to my father at long 
distance rates).  I do, however, resent the broad tarring of the FLAME echo.
You have managed to attract some real prizes here in the past.....remember 
Joe Falls?  What about that rascist that was posting here some months ago?  
Are you sure it wasn't one of them?
Lastly, I couldn't help but notice that your name was listed on the realname 
kludge of most or all of those messages.  What was your part in this?  You 
must have done something to attract this.  Somebody went to a lot of trouble 
to embarass you.
Jay
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