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- Newsgroups: news.admin.policy
- Path: sparky!uunet!news.mtholyoke.edu!jbotz
- From: jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz)
- Subject: Re: Cancels
- Message-ID: <C00tDE.2qs@mtholyoke.edu>
- Sender: news@mtholyoke.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Mount Holyoke College
- References: <NDDiwB3w165w@mediaone.freeside.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 12:29:38 GMT
- Lines: 23
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- In article <NDDiwB3w165w@mediaone.freeside.com> exile@mediaone.freeside.com (Exile in Paradise) writes:
- >Hellay there everyone! It is I, Exile, posting to apologize to everyone
- >who was annoyed at my cancels... I was just fed up with 30 posts by this
- >guy a day hitting my site. It really was an experiment to see how the
- >Internet handles cancels, and now I know... I have only been online here
- >for 2 weeks steadily and finally said "What the Hell, try it" and I did.
-
- This leaves me speechless.
-
- >Well, you all have set the policy and *I* will abide by from now on,
- >yet I won't hesitate to help anyone who finds a way to silence the
- >endless babble from zuma. The mental picture here is frightening to
- >say the least. Anyway, thanks for your posts about proper policy and
- >again, apologies to all who were annoyed, but I felt I should at
- >least try it once and *see* for myself. L8r
-
- Next time use 'misc.test' for such experiments. Yeah, you picked the
- one target on all of Usenet that was least likely to get much sympathy,
- but even so you got flack for canceling other people's posts. Hopefully
- this will teach you something about how the Net works.
-
- --
- Jurgen Botz, jbotz@mtholyoke.edu
-