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From: loci@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (loci!clb)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: A SERIOUS DILEMMA FOR THE NET
Summary: over reaction
Message-ID: <5572@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 19 Sep 88 18:44:26 GMT
References: <265@sulaco.UUCP>
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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In article <265@sulaco.UUCP>, allen@sulaco.UUCP (Allen Gwinn) writes:
> To the members of Usenet:

	This is an interesting concept: Usenet members! You make it
	sound so organized.
> 
> Greetings.  There has emerged, what I feel to be a big problem.  For
> a couple of weeks, the net has been plagued with postings from several
> "entities" at the Portal System (tm) in California.  The postings are

	The net has a perfectly good mechanism for dealing with postings
	that cause aggravation; the reader merely doesn't read whatever
	they find offensive. If it's too extreme, unsubscribe.
> 
> I thank you, and Usenet thanks you...
> 
> -- 
> Allen Gwinn  ...sulaco!allen        Disclaimer: The facts stated are my own.

	If you seriously want to do something constructive to reduce
	the trash posting on the net, try setting a good example.
	However, if posters are going to assail others with flames,
	insults, lies, etc., etc., it really makes no difference
	whether they use a handle or their name. 

	In addition to setting a good example, another effective means
	of dealing with juvenile behavior is to simply ignore it.
	Without acknoledgement, these children get bored and look
	for something else to do. Your posting merely fans their flames
	by admitting that they are being heard, so chill out.
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