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- From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: [news.admin.policy] Re: (repost) Serdar Argic FAQ - everything you didn't want to know, but he replied anyway
- Message-ID: <C0938E.rz@cs.uiuc.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 23:43:26 GMT
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- [A repost - Carl]
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- Newsgroups: news.admin.policy
- From: kbibb@maui.qualcomm.com (Ken Bibb)
- Subject: Re: (repost) Serdar Argic FAQ - everything you didn't want to know, but he replied anyway
- Message-ID: <root.726010378@maui>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 21:32:58 GMT
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- In <1993Jan2.183553.25393@news2.cis.umn.edu> molenda@i1.msi.umn.edu (Jason Molenda) writes:
-
- >cudcv@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon) writes:
-
- >>In article <iacovou.725924649@gurney> iacovou@gurney.cs.umn.edu (Neophytos
- >>Iacovou) writes:
- >>> Ahmet Cosar is a graduate student at the CSci dept. of the UofMn. He
- >>> operates a site by the name of anatolia.mn.org. The site anatolia.mn.org is
- >>> a member of .mn.org. The domain .mn.org exists because it provides services
- >>> to a number of hobbyests and small companies around the state of Minnesota.
-
- [deleted]
-
- >The people who are running the news/mail are doing most
- >(all?) of this in their free time and aren't some Evil Clearinghouse
- >with the mission to provide dweebs with access to the net.
-
- But they appear to be an Evil Clearinghouse with the mission to provide
- dweebs netaccess because of their association to anatolia.mn.org and
- zuma.
-
- >Not necessarily. Please read news.admin.policy if you haven't been
- >following it closely -- both UUNET and UUM are in a sticky position and
- >I don't think either will do anything. If the justification is ``we
- >don't like how his site is behaving'', I don't think either
- >organization *should* do anything. UUM is in the position of having
- >their service interrupted because of the actions of anatolia.mn.org, so
- >something may happen because of that, but don't hold your breath. Cutting
- >this guy off could set a rather nasty precedent.
-
- I agree that cutting off a site because of content is wrong, but if
- a site is endangering the other sites of a feed (as anatolia is doing
- to the rest of mn.org) I would think that it would be entirely reasonable
- to cut off that site. Along the same lines, it is reasonable to drop
- a user if that user is endangering the other users. If you are poisoned
- by a snakebite and are told that you can either lose your arm or your
- life, why save the arm to lose the life?
-
- >(more importantly, if mn.org drops anatolia, the Argic postings till get
- >through uunet).
-
- But this will disassociate mn.org from anatolia, which would be a Very
- Good Thing (tm) for mn.org.
-
- anatolia would then have to pay for a mail feed, and will be more likely
- to curb serdar because anatolia will pay for all of the mail that will
- be fed back to it from the posts. If anatolia wants to pay for the
- privilege of being flamed and mailbombed, then that's their business.
-
- But as I said earlier, I feel that posters *should* have valid email
- addresses where they can be reached. If they are not willing to
- accept email, then they should not be a newsite.
- --
- Ken Bibb "he heard the snow falling faintly through the
- kbibb@qualcomm.com universe and faintly falling, like the descent of
- jester@crash.cts.com their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
- --"The Dead", James Joyce
-
- --
- Ken Bibb "he heard the snow falling faintly through the
- kbibb@qualcomm.com universe and faintly falling, like the descent of
- jester@crash.cts.com their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
- --"The Dead", James Joyce
-
- --
- Carl Kadie -- I do not represent any organization; this is just me.
- = kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =
-