Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!killer!vector!rpp386!jfh From: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: A SERIOUS DILEMMA FOR THE NET Message-ID: <7110@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> Date: 25 Sep 88 22:22:17 GMT References: <7086@gryphon.CTS.COM> <7090@gryphon.CTS.COM> <931@psuhcx.psu.edu> <1744@ddsw1.UUCP> <2060@looking.UUCP> Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum) Organization: HASA, "S" Division Lines: 22 In article <2060@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes: >Don't be fooled, folks. This series of similar form letters is actually >a conspiracy to distract attention away from Portal and save it from net >censure. > >By carefully making a series of annoying, obnoxious anti-portal postings >from a wide variety of sites, these users (or whoever did the posting) have >actually caused many on the net to rally to the defence of Portal. far from the truth. allen has been speaking with the management at portal. he has made considerable progress towards getting the management to contribute more to the net as well as police their users better. brad simply doesn't have the facts. since the form letter posting there have been many changes made to how portal users are expected to behave. this is a good thing. brad and others attempts to minimize what has been accomplished is foolishness. the facts will be borne out. -- John F. Haugh II (jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US) HASA, "S" Division "Why waste negative entropy on comments, when you could use the same entropy to create bugs instead?" -- Steve Elias