Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cbosgd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!cbosgd!mark From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: Welcome to Usenet 1984 Message-ID: <444@cbosgd.UUCP> Date: Sun, 28-Oct-84 18:19:36 EST Article-I.D.: cbosgd.444 Posted: Sun Oct 28 18:19:36 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 29-Oct-84 02:56:20 EST References: <274@haddock.UUCP> Reply-To: mark@cbpavo.UUCP (Mark Horton) Organization: Bell Labs, Columbus Lines: 12 Summary: Most companies do not like to have their employees behaving in a way uncomplimentary to themselves (and implicitly their company) in a public forum. Usenet is such a public forum. Do you think it is fair to try to hide Mr. Williams' behavior from his supervision? Going to somebodies boss and complaining is certainly a last resort, but every so often it has to be done. The damage from posting attacks of a personal or ethnic or sexual nature can be quite severe. It wasn't long ago when a joke about black people was posted to net.jokes. Someone on the other side of the net got offended, and filed an affirmative action complaint. Netnews was nearly removed from all the machines at that location, and the last I heard, they still only get business related groups.