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- From: werner@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (John Werner)
- Newsgroups: alt.support
- Subject: Re: Informing on Others
- Date: 21 Nov 1992 05:40:16 GMT
- Organization: School of Education, U.C. Berkeley
- Lines: 29
- Message-ID: <1eki40INNbo6@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- In article <By1AC0.Bp2@cscns.com> rks@cscns.com (Island's Child) writes:
- >
- > What gives *any* of you the right to forward people's postings to
- >sysops, bosses, SOs or anything else? Just *who* do you think you all
- >are?
-
- If you think non-anonymous posts to Usenet are "private" in any way,
- you are mistaken. According to the latest readership estimates, there
- are 9400 people who read this group. You might know some of them.
- Some of them might know you. You mentioned that someone sent one of
- your posts to your boss. For all you know, your boss might even
- subscribe now. Usenet is a public medium.
-
- > The person who posted, saying that he had forwarded (or 'reported')
- >Kane's message to his sysop, is *way* out of line!
-
- I disagree. Forwarding obnoxious posts to sysops is one of the only
- ways to keep bad (or clueless) net.citizens under control. I do this
- fairly frequently myself, but usually for more blatant net abuse like
- advertisements in the technical newsgroups I read. I'd have some
- qualms about doing it in a group like this one where people talk about
- personal issues. But if someone were consistently obnoxious and
- abusive, or if they kept posting messages that didn't have anything to
- do with this group's purpose, I might. By the way, I didn't see
- Kane's message so I'm not implying that I approve or diapprove of it
- or of the responses to it.
- --
- John Werner werner@soe.berkeley.edu
- UC Berkeley School of Education 510-642-9651
-