Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!cornell!rochester!bbn!bbn.com!levin From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Dealing with Net.Nuisances Message-ID: <30025@bbn.COM> Date: 23 Sep 88 16:18:07 GMT References: <2746@inco.UUCP> Sender: news@bbn.COM Reply-To: levin@BBN.COM (Joel B Levin) Organization: BBN Communications Corporation Lines: 12 In article <2746@inco.UUCP> mack@inco.UUCP (Dave Mack) writes: (I suggest that, instead of flaming them or posting complaints to (the net, we simply email these people a copy of the appropriate (newuser posting when they do something aggravating. Eventually, (they may get the idea. I actually for some reason took it upon myself to send excerpts from the "rules" and "guidelines" to two of the worst alt.flame offenders. I received polite notes from both in response, with a statement of intent from one to follow them. I haven't seen anything from him since. /JBL