Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!labrea!agate!garnet!weemba From: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Report Card . . . (really: portal sysadmin weenie strikes again!) Message-ID: <14513@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 20 Sep 88 21:41:58 GMT References: <9228@cup.portal.com> <9255@cup.portal.com> <3052@mit-amt> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) Organization: Brahms Gang Posting Central Lines: 34 In-reply-to: henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch) In article <3052@mit-amt>, henry@garp (Henry Mensch) writes: >PHil@cup.portal.com wrote: >-> (portal hornblowing deleted) >this is my pet peeve with portal: these weenies don't do anything to >inform their users in the ways of the net. they then go on to post an >advertisement describing what services portal offers and how to >connect. The reason they do this is they get a bounty for each new user they bring in. Just like the AT&T VP who ordered subordinates to post his IEEE campaign garbage, Portal, rather than informing its users of the ways of USENET, deliberately encourages users to violate the rules. But unlike AT&T, Portal has zero concern about the bad image thus derived. Making a stink out of it is meaningless to Portal. >it seems to me that the people who run portal aren't very >professional. they continue to act this way even after problems are >identified to them. Of course they're professional: that is what making money means. It's their income to take advantage of the net's largesse this way. > just this morning i received a response to e-mail >i sent to postmaster@cup.portal.com ... it was a one-line "i have >forwarded the net-etiquette posting to foo-user" sort of thing, and it >was signed simply "CS." i'm supposed to know who / what CS is, right? CS: customer support. Isn't nice to know that foo-user got a copy of the netiquette postings? ucbvax!garnet!weemba Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720