Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!cmcl2!phri!roy From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: Abuses of the net Message-ID: <2541@phri.UUCP> Date: Wed, 17-Dec-86 12:12:50 EST Article-I.D.: phri.2541 Posted: Wed Dec 17 12:12:50 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Dec-86 21:45:48 EST References: <3159@cbosgd.ATT.COM> <1489@hoptoad.uucp> Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 31 In article <1489@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes: > I have a hard time believing that anyone's behavior could ever get to > the point where either of the following actions is justifiable: [...] > (2) Writing to the local system adminsitrator to complain about someone I disagree. As the SA for phri, I am responsible for things running smoothly; that includes seeing that people don't make public fools of themselves. This is a public invitation to anyone on the net to write to me if you think somebody here is acting in a grossly anti-social manner, and the direct approach has proven fruitless. We have a pretty professional group here, so I don't ever expect to get one of those letters, but if you feel the need to complain, I'm willing to listen. I won't promise I'll do anything specific about it, but I will look into the matter. It is unreasonable to expect any more or less of an SA (this is, however, my personal opinion). I have on rare occasions (I think twice in 3 years), taken it upon myself to write to another SA complaining about somebody. In one case, I got back an obnoxious letter from the person I was complaining about; I think it was somebody's single-user system. In the other case, the SA told me that the account from which the problem postings were eminating belonged to somebody who was no longer there, and aparantly the account was being used by somebody else and would be closed. -- Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 "you can't spell deoxyribonucleic without unix!"