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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
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References: <3159@cbosgd.ATT.COM> <1489@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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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!"