[wplug-plan] [Fwd: [wplug] RE:one more question for today]

[John Harrold]

Sometime in February Jonathan S Billings assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| There's no reason why I should have to announce a policy about not 
| allowing illegal activity on the mailing list.

I don't think the guy was necessarily encourageing or even condoning
illegal activity. I took it as a kid who was trying to communicate what
someone told him using terminology (e.g. "What linux should I get") he
wasn't familiar with. Is it illegal to break into your own computers (or
one of a friend who gives you permission to do so)? I'm know next to
nothing about this, but isn't breaking into computers you own/have
permission to break into, a valid way of learning about security? 

Perhaps sending the kid a warning letter explaining policies about
discussing illegal activities would have been better than just
unsubscribing him.

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