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- From: cosar@ulysses.cs.umn.edu (A. Cosar)
- Subject: What is it that you want to learn ``Jason Molenda''?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.211520.14764@news2.cis.umn.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:15:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.155248.26677@news2.cis.umn.edu> molenda@msi.umn.edu writes:
- >> 55454????? Since there is no "net police" (THANK GOD) what are we
- >> supposed to do about it?
- >
- >Please read my entire message (i.e. don't just quote the whole thing
- >;). I said I'm assuming the sysadmin at anatolia is ignorant of
- >netiquette and could use a gentle reminder to check out the messages in
- >news.announce.newusers.
-
- Wat makes YOU 'assume' so?
-
- >Ignorant until proven obnoxious, I say! :)
-
- You are both, that's for sure.
-
- >Although there are no ``net police'' (and I would disagree with that;
- >they just aren't as overt as you would think), there are accepted norms
- >of behavior on the net. i.e. don't post business ads on the net except
- >in biz.*.
-
- One of those 'accepted norms' must be to contact the person before
- running to newsgroups with 'obnoxious assumptions'.
-
- >People regularly overstep these conventions, and are subsequently
- >flamed by everyone and their brother. I have seen only a few isolated
- >instances where the person _knew better_ but was being obnoxious
- >anyway; in most of the cases I have seen, once the poster was informed
- >what convention was (and why it was so), they would cease and desist.
-
- Isn't this what people call a 'straw-man argument?'
-
- >So far, people trying to contact either the sysadmin at anatolia or
- >Serdar Argic have been utterly unsuccessful. I'd like to see if anyone
- >knows either one of them or knows how to contact them, by phone, in
- >person, at a UUM meeting, whatever. That's what I'm trying to
- >accomplish here.
-
- What do you mean by 'utterly unsuccesful?' That I have refused to
- silence their opponent? Yes, some people have been 'utterly unsuccessful'
- in doing that, one being the so-called 'postmaster' of UIUC.EDU who
- does junk-mailing in violation of the laws of this country. What is
- more shamelessly using the equipment of a state university for
- harrassing the very same people who pay for that university and
- Paul Pomes' wages with their taxes. And, yes I exposed this sorry
- 'postmaster' in news.admin.policy with his FULLY-AUTOMATED-JUNK-
- MAILING-SYSTEM.
-
- Send me an e-mail if you want to learn more, if you know how to use
- mail, that is ...
-
- >--
- >Jason Molenda, University of Minnesota, Supercomputer Inst., Technical Support
- >SGI Iris Admin molenda@jason.msi.umn.edu DoD #1867 '77 CB750F
- > just another elitist Usenet administrator
-
-
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