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- From: molenda@i1.msi.umn.edu (Jason Molenda)
- Subject: Re: What is it that you want to learn ``Jason Molenda''?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.231539.16445@news2.cis.umn.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 23:15:39 GMT
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- cosar@ulysses.cs.umn.edu (A. Cosar) writes:
-
- >What will you do now? Join the 'trying to contact by junk-mailing' mob?
- >That's what your pen-pal (Paul Pomes, the so-called 'postmaster' of UIUC.EDU)
- >did after all...
-
- Listen, my intentions are something like this. I saw a lot of people,
- many of them respected net.citizens (such as Paul Pomes, who I've had
- the pleasure to work with on several occasions over the years),
- complaining about this site which appears to be based in Minnesota. I
- looked into it a bit and noticed that your site was helping to
- propagate the material people were complaining about and I, being a
- relatively nice person I like to think, was trying to be helpful and
- see if you were aware of what this person on zuma.UUCP was doing.
-
- You are obviously not ignorant of Usenet and are aware of your actions
- and the actions of the site to which you provide a feed.
-
- As a person local to all of this, I thought it a rather responsible
- thing of me to try some form of communication. Other people in
- news.admin.policy had little luck trying to contact you via email.
-
- Usenet is an anarchy with some social conventions that people *usually*
- choose to follow. And as long as someone is willing to feed you and
- zuma.UUCP, you can spew out whatever y'all want. There is clearly
- nothing I can do either in cutting the garbage or education; I can
- happily add all of this to my killfiles and go about my business.
-
- take care
- --
- Jason Molenda, University of Minnesota, Supercomputer Inst., Technical Support
- SGI Iris Admin molenda@jason.msi.umn.edu DoD #1867 '77 CB750F
-