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- From: rks@cscns.com (Island's Child)
- Subject: Re: Informing on Others
- Message-ID: <By34DI.D48@cscns.com>
- Organization: Community_News_Service
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- References: <1eki40INNbo6@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 21:15:17 GMT
- Lines: 61
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- werner@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (John Werner) writes:
- : 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.
-
- I am aware of that. However, when I post to a public group, I do it
- voluntarily. Others sending my posts around without my permission is
- just plain rude -- not to mention wrong!
-
-
- : 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.
-
- Yes. I am aware of his subscription. The fact is that he thought the
- sameof the person who did that. He agreed with my anger. But that is
- not the issue. The issue is that others sending posts around without
- the permission of the poster is a violation of privacy.
-
-
- :
- : > 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
- : f
-
- Why not just ignore it if you don't like it? Your key phrase was
- "under control" -- by your definition, of course.
-
-
-
- airly 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
-
- Well, good.
-
- : 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.
- : --
-
- Kan's message *was* obnoxious. And it was mocking. I still say, though,
- that those who want to deal with him -- have something to say to him --
- should say it to *him*. Nazi tactics of using authority to coerce others
- into your way of thinking is wrong. Period. End of discussion.
-
-
-
- Gisle
-
-