Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!killer!loci 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 Lines: 34 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. -- CLBrunow - KA5SOF Loci Products, POB 833846-131, Richardson, Texas 75083 clb@loci.uucp, loci@killer.uucp, loci@csccat.uucp