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- From: al037@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dave Polewka)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: Postmaster at Carrasso's site
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 18:00:43 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Message-ID: <1i20scINN385@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Reply-To: al037@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dave Polewka)
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- In SOC.CULTURE.ARABIC,
- gwydion@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Mercenary Programmer) says:
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- > bouguett@milkbones.cs.colorado.edu (Athman Bouguettaya) writes:
- >>I sent mail to Carrasso's site postmaster to complain about
- >>Carrasso use of offensive and racist language. There seems
- >>to be the case that these two gentlemen grew in the stable.
- >>I plan to take the matter further and contact their newsfeed
- >>as a first step and and see what other actions are
- >>appropriate.
- >
- >Turing is a private machine. It is owned by one Jon Gefaell who is
- >employed at the University of Virginia. Because of this, it feeds off
- >the UVa site. Please note that this is the machine itself - I do not
- >know where their newsfeed comes from.
- >
- >Turing used to run an IRC server. Unfortunately, Mr. Gefaell chose to
- >grossly abuse the powers granted to him as an IRC server operator and
- >he had every one of his uplinks pulled. In the US at least, IRC is a
- >total anarchy and you must both offend a very large number of people
- >and behave in an extremely fascist fashion to get *all* of your
- >uplinks pulled. However, Mr. Gefaell managed to accomplish this
- >difficult feat. I hope he will prove more receptive in other matters,
- >although I fear that such is not likely to be the case.
- >
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