Jerry Pournelle
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"Franz Mark" writes
>At WESTERCON we talked with Jerry Pournelle about why he never contributed
>to the SF-LOVERS bb since he had an account at MIT-MC. He said his account
>at MIT-MC was terminated by some "graduate student" in charge of accounting,
>who felt he did not have a need for an account. He knows who this graduate
>student" is, and he refuses to grovel so that his account is reinstated.
>However, he asked us to broadcast this little story - presumably so that
>MIT-MC will come to him.
A completely unimpeachable source informs me that the person who deleted
Jerry Pournelle's MIC-MC account has told several people privately that he
deleted the account because Dr. Pournelle had posted messages supporting
President Reagan's SDI plan. I would point out that this is ARPANET that
we are talking about--a Defense Department system where, it would seem, only
messages in opposition to military planning are permitted. Part of Jerry
Pournelle's interest in spreading this is to let people know about this
misuse of ARPA.
/Bruce N. Wheelock/
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Bob Halloran
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In article <26...@topaz.ARPA> b...@crash.UUCP writes:
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> A completely unimpeachable source informs me that the person who deleted
>Jerry Pournelle's MIC-MC account has told several people privately that he
>deleted the account because Dr. Pournelle had posted messages supporting
>President Reagan's SDI plan. I would point out that this is ARPANET that
>we are talking about--a Defense Department system where, it would seem, only
>messages in opposition to military planning are permitted. Part of Jerry
>Pournelle's interest in spreading this is to let people know about this
>misuse of ARPA.
> /Bruce N. Wheelock/
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An equally trustworthy source informs me that the issue was Jerry's
broadcasting of access information to various ARPANET machines in
one of his columns. The 'graduate student' in question contacted
Jerry to inform him that distributing phone numbers, id's, etc.
was at least a severe breach of etiquette, and that similar actions
by MIT students had led to revocation of accounts. Jerry's response
was said to have been something like "I'm famous, you can't kill
MY account!". The person in User Accounts did just that.
I would sincerely be interested in hearing both sides from the
actual affected parties.
Bob Halloran
Sr MTS, Perkin-Elmer DSG
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