Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!convex!killer!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!juniper!yelorose From: yelorose@juniper.uucp (Bob Mosley III) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: A SERIOUS DILEMMA FOR THE NET Keywords: humor, rules, no, duh... Message-ID: <4923@juniper.uucp> Date: 26 Sep 88 15:58:16 GMT References: <7086@gryphon.CTS.COM> <7090@gryphon.CTS.COM> <931@psuhcx.psu.edu> <14647@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <811@ontenv.UUCP> Reply-To: yelorose@juniper.UUCP (I Am not a number!) Organization: Definately NOT Portal! Lines: 29 In article <811@ontenv.UUCP> soley@ontenv.UUCP (Norman S. Soley) disagrees: >In article <14647@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, nj@eris.berkeley.edu dictates: >> In article <2060@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) warns: >> > >> >Well guys, it worked. You saved Portal from attack. But we've seen through >> >it the next time you try. >> >> No form of humor should EVER be posted, especially in news.admin, >> unless followed by explicit humor-indicators*. If we moderate >> news.admin, this sort of reprehensible behavior would never >> occur. > >Somehow I don't think Brad was joking. > > ...neither do I. ...next thing you know, these geeks will get tehir daddie's lawyers in on this, and try to invoke the First Amendment on Usenet. Gah. Just remove their access for a week. That will straighten them out. (this was not meant as humor, either) 6