roundtable: Re: Letters from `Jlehm@aol.com'

roundtable: Re: Letters from `Jlehm@aol.com'

Re: Letters from `Jlehm@aol.com'

Vigdor Schreibman - FINS (fins@access.digex.net)
Tue, 14 Mar 1995 17:15:52 -0500 (EST) 

Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 17:15:52 -0500 (EST)
From: Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <fins@access.digex.net>
To: roundtable@cni.org
Subject: Re: Letters from `Jlehm@aol.com'
In-Reply-To: <199503011258.AA08669@world.std.com>
Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950314170910.26432C-100000@access4.digex.net>


I appreciate this thoughtful analysis and warning posted by Fred, but 
the it does not seem to me at this time--read in the light of several 
days of commentary--that there is anything unusual here, requiring 
special moderation.

Vigdor Schreibman
<fins@access.digex.net>


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On Fri, 3 Mar 1995, Fred G Athearn wrote:
> 
>      On 2/25 I forwarded with a brief comment something from
> FINS dealing with Star Schools in Iowa to a networking in
> education list called "cosndisc@list.cren.net".  I got back an
> individual unsigned flame that said it was from "Jlhem@aol.com".
>  
>      There was something fishy about it because, while it
> rambled on like Rush Limbaugh overdosed on coffee, there were
> none of the specifics you would expect if its writing had been
> triggered by what it claimed to be responding to.
>  
>      Just to give you the flavor, it starts out: "How typical of
> you liberal wacos who live and breath by the tax dollar." It
> goes on to denounce me and all my "tax dollar-sucking
> associates," and our "cancerous adgenda" which only has the
> aim of ensuring the "survival of your wimp job, what ever that
> may be."  As (Mr. ?) Jlehm sees it it is all just:
>  
>      "...more liberal political dirvel from you junior
>       Slick WIllies and his venal and corrupt wife!"
>  
>      I posted the whole letter to cosndisc with the comment that
> I felt like I thought I was tuned to NPR and had gotten Rush
> Limbaugh instead.  I got a personal reply from Mr. Jlehm
> telling me to "glue your radio to the Limbaugh station."
>  
>      Now I learn that on that same day Mr. Jlehm, seeming to
> speak in a very different voice and from a very different
> viewpoint sent Mr. Priest a warning about others on his
> "network" who might denounce his good work to Congress or to
> "Liddy and Limbaugh" and that this would add "fuel to your
> already blazing fire".  The seemingly-friendly warning speaks of
> the danger of "elimination of your funding".
>  
>      The only things that his letter to Priest has in common
> with his ones to me is an uncontroled but educated type of
> writing and a rather clever generic and non-specific quality
> which could let them be used in many situations.
>  
>      I think that it is clear that Mr. Jlehm is sending
> disingenuous individual provocations to posters to lists.
> It may be that he intends to start to do this on a systematic
> basis.
>  
>      It is very easy (too easy) get someone kicked off of aol
> and that would not realy stop someone who was motivated. In fact
> that might be the real goal of the provocation -- to have the
> "liberals" kick a "conservative" off the internet. Rush would
> realy pop his buttons over that and the general media is always
> hungry for "internet" stories.
>  
>      I hope this is a one-shot operation, but I fear I have
> seen signs of intentional and non-spontaneous provocation and
> disruption on other lists.  Dealing with cyber-age psy-opps may
> be a telecommunications policy issue whose time has come.
>  
>      What, if anything, beyond reposting with discussion, should
> be the response to such problems?
> 
> Fred Athearn
> Paradise Hill
> Bellows Falls
> VT  05101
> 
> (802) 869-2003 (voice) fga@world.std.com (E-mail)

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