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From: fair@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Erik E. Fair)
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Subject: Re: Abuses of the net
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Date: Mon, 15-Dec-86 13:50:55 EST
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Summary: OK, so what do you want *us* to do about it?

Enough already! If the lot of you wanted the attention of system
administrators network wide, you've got it. Now that you have it, what
do you want us to do? I've been watching this debate since Mr. Harnad
started it, and I fail to see why it continues in this forum for any
other reason than inertia. I have seen no call to remove the "brahms
gang" from the network, and even if there had been such a request
presented here, I have seen no evidence supporting such an action on
my part. All I see is some mild name calling and finger pointing.

For those of you who have been insulted in one way or another, I'm
sorry, but that's not cause for positive action on the part of the
network admins. Neither is the use of scatalogical words and phrases.
As I recently noted elsewhere, the USENET may be viewed as a highway
system, and you all have mistaken the admins for the highway patrol.
Wrong. We're the highway construction crew. There is *no* highway
patrol. We only act when damage to the highway would result from our
inaction (and even then, getting concerted action means convincing the
entire crew that it would be a good thing to do!).

So, if there are specific requests for network adminstrative action,
please present them. If all you want to do is debate who said what to
whom and why, then please take it back to talk.philosophy.misc or
talk.religion or whatever /dev/null is called today...

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	Erik E. Fair	ucbvax!fair	fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu