liz, points toward

Dear Judges, Lawyers, Policemen, Guards, Counselors, Taxpayers, et. al.,

We are here. Like it or not, for good or bad, we are here. Who are we? We are the
downtrodden and dispossesed, the self-torturing, the disenfranchised convicts,
drug and alcohol addicts, the unemployed and unemployable. We are the children of
poverty, financial and spiritual. We have and will have children of our own,
grandchildren too. We are ex-cons, uninsured, homeless, of many colors and speaking
many tongues. We are the enemy in what has become a domestic war against ourselves.

And who are you? You who like the tough talk of Tough on Crime? You who watch as
budgets are cut in education and health care while you militarize a police force?
Bullet-proof vests, automatic weapons, helicopters, tanks, robots ... the
testosterone is oozing through the streets, more prisons, longer sentences, tighten
the belt, spartan conditions, task forces, gang units, gun courts. And what is there
to show for it? Unemployent stays low because half the population oversees those
"out of the workforce", the dregs, the rabble, the enemy? Please tell me there is a
deeper reason. Do you feel safer? More humane? More like a cohesive society with a
shared sense of purpose, who can identify Us and Them? Do you live in a gated
community or gentrified neighborhood? By the way, have you read the Declaration of
Independence and US Constitution - or do you only know the first phrases?

It's about time we got together. Please know that I have yet to meet a convict who
wants their child to be a thief, an addict, a dealer, a prostitute, or a violent
individual. Most of us still have hope for ourselves even when stuck in the darkest
dilemmas, ruts and catch-22s. Most of us believe in crafting laws and instilling
order. Many of us have burrowed beneath the surface to find a spiritual sense of
being, an understanding force at least as powerful as those we succumbed to, and many
of use wouldn't escape if you opened the front door. Did you know that approximately
10 million Americans are either incarcerated, on probation, on parole or once were in
those categories? Each of those 10 million have families, friends, neighbors ... and
so closer and closer does the We interface with the You. Don't you think it's time we
talked?

Are you ready? Can you accept that the road we are travelling points toward a grim
and painful future? Do you have the heart to face monumental failures while bravely
struggling beyond where we are now? I know that some of you are, and that some of us
are, and this is what gives me hope. You need our insights just as we need your
structure. It is never over, especially when a real solution, a real treatment for
our sickness, is yet to begin.
In Solidarity,

Bruce Reilly (a.k.a Bruha)
P.O.Box 8274
Cranston, RI 02920 USA

P.S. - I am trying to conceptualize an effective guerilla media campaign to promote
this cause. Ideas are welcome. Collaboration is prayed.























or groups from various far-away places (which depending on where
you are at could be Japanese, German, Canadian, or Australian). There were a
lot of people out there who were different from you.

11. Usenet is not a UNIX network.

Well...ok, if you didn't have a UNIX machine, you could read news. In
fact, there were substantial sets of newsgroups (bit.*) which were
transported and gatewayed primarily through IBM VM systems, and a set
of newsgroups (vmsnet.*) which had major traffic through DEC VMS
systems. Reasonable news relay software ran on Macs (uAccess), Amiga
(a C news port), MS-DOS (Waffle), and no doubt quite a few more. I'm
was typing on a DOS machine when I first wrote this sentence, and it's
been edited on Macs and X terminals since then.

There was a certain culture about the net that grew up on Unix
machines, which occasionally ran into fierce clashes with the
culture that had grown up on IBM machines (LISTSERV), Commodore
64's (B1FF 1S A K00L D00D), MS-DOS Fidonet systems, commercial chat
systems (America Online), and "family oriented" systems (Prodigy).
If you were not running on a Unix machine or if you didn't have one
handy there were things about the net which were puzzling
or maddening, much as if you were reading a BITNET list and you
don't have a CMS system handy.

12. Usenet is not a

Bruce Reilly (a.k.a Bruha) wrote:

Dear Judges, Lawyers, Policemen, Guards, Counselors, Taxpayers, et.
al.,

Not really the advertised profile for this group

We are here. Like it or not, for good or bad ....

Apparently so. Now, be a good chap and let the good folk of ciwas [1] go
about their daily business without any further interruptions from you.

[1] and all the other groups you have recently spammed with your off-topic
rant
--
William Tasso - http://WilliamTasso.com

In article <bq64id$1hsf0f$1 (AT) ID-139074 (DOT) news.uni-berlin.de> in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.site-design, William Tasso
<news27 (AT) tbdata (DOT) com> wrote:

[1] and all the other groups you have recently spammed with your off-topic
rant

You're aware that this person has spammed many groups. What on earth
makes you think that this person reads the groups it is spamming?
And in the unlikely event the person happens to read your plaint, it
seem _most_ unlikely that it would say to itself, "Hello! I didn't
realize this was wrong! I'll never do anything so rude again."

This is the problem with posting a follow-up to spam: all it does is
waste yet more bandwidth for yet the same victims. It can make some
sense to report the spam properly to the spammer's ISP; otherwise
ignore it.

--
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http://OakRoadSystems.com/
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Stan Brown wrote:

...
What on earth
makes you think that this person reads the groups it is spamming?

Because:
o it looks more like a troll than a spam.

and in answer to the next Q

o one can never get enough practice
o completely ignoring all garbage gives the wrong impression to lurking
novices
o some days I just need to and it's more healthy than kicking the dog or
tearing into yet another poor innocent requesting a site critique.
o I can

...
all it does is waste yet more bandwidth

quite so.

/rushes off to fit reinforced glass

--
William Tasso - http://WilliamTasso.com