By MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press Writer
> PINELLAS PARK, Fla. - Terri Schiavo, the severely brain-damaged woman
> who spent 15 years connected to a feeding tube in an epic legal and
> medical battle that went all the way to the White House and Congress,
> died Thursday, 13 days after the tube was removed. She was 41.
This topic has occupied the national media now for more than 15 years. What it has to do with telecom is beyond my comprehension. Why we have to see yet another re-hashing of this non-topical business here mystifies me. Yes, her circumstance is tragic. No, it doesn't belong here. It's been all over the national news. We don't need it here. I'm really starting to wonder what the editor of this digest/news group's rationale for putting this stuff here. More and more stuff is ending up in this space and it has absolutely nothing to do with telecom and why is it here?
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: You should see the Terri Shiavo crapola which shows up in my mailbox in a day's -- no, several hours' -- time I _do not_ print here. As Monty Solomon points out a couple messages from now in this issue, her father sold the rights to the mailing list of people who had been moved enough in recent days to write him or his wife. So, even if all you did was take a few seconds to send them a note saying "I am sorry about your grief", your name and _email address_ has now been sold -- at a pretty penny I might add -- to spammers who wanted that list so _they_ could milk it also for all their cracked-pot causes, etc. Just read the message elsewhere in this issue; don't take my word for it. PAT]