What what does the rest of the group think about what happened?
The way I personally saw it was: One person leans over to another one and wispers in his ear "hey man, are you trolling with this or something?" and the person smiles, walks over to CNN and repeats everything the person said and gives their scathing rebuttal.
In my opinion, I don't see any grounds for it being an issue of "self defense" because no threat was made, and no slander was done sinse it was sent to the person in private.
I find it questional behavior. If the person has been sending this sort of thing over and over then I can see giving a warning of "hey, if you send me another message I'm forwarding it to the mail list to let others know what you're doing", but to do it instantly at the first very minor offense (it's questionable in my mind if it was an offense at all) seems quite over the top to me.
Ironically, such behavior is more likely to "bully" and scare people away from talking to you in general, which is what ad hominem is all about, no? :)
On 9/15/07, Peter William Lount peter@smalltalk.org wrote:
Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> "Peter" == Peter William Lount peter@smalltalk.org writes: >
Peter> People have the right to defend their person and this right even allows Peter> them to make private communications public!
Not in violation of federal law. I don't care how you feel. You don't get to violate the law no matter how you "feel".
Hi Mr. Schwartz,
As you know good sir I believe you are mistaken. I was well within the rights of a citizen of Canada to defend one's person.
I've moved on and I think the group has as well. Thank you good sir.
All the best,
Peter