Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!gatech!ncsuvx!ece-csc!ncrcae!ncr-sd!serene!rfarris From: rfarris@serene.CTS.COM (Rick Farris) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: A SERIOUS DILEMMA FOR THE NET Summary: You have to apply pressure where it does the most good. Message-ID: <233@serene.CTS.COM> Date: 23 Sep 88 18:25:52 GMT References: <7086@gryphon.CTS.COM> <9337@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: rfarris@serene.cts.com (Rick Farris) Distribution: na Organization: Serenity BBS, Del Mar, Ca. Lines: 31 In article <9337@cup.portal.com> Phillip_M_Dampier@cup.portal.com writes: >I would like to see the blatant stereotyping of all Portal users as teenagers >who are irresponsible stopped. You people are allowing a few bad apples to >influence your views in general on Portal users. I don't suppose it occured to you that the "you people" you're speaking of are adults, and know exactly what they're doing? There's this problem, see; on a system with (reputedly) 15,000 users, a small minority of them are causing trouble for people on the net. Now everyone knows (contrary to your opinion above) that it's only a small minority, but the problem is; How do you get the attention of someone who can do something about it? The people who are the targets of the irresponsibility are not paying customers of Portal. The people that are paying customers (you) don't seem to care about the actions of their fellow portalets. Indeed, they probably don't even feel a kinship for them. So how do you apply pressure to the powers that be at Portal? One way is to make things so darn hard on every other Portal user, that *they* turn to the Portal management and say things like "Why don't you do something about the Portal users who are abusing Usenet?". Now we've got paying customers complaining, and *that* works. Simple, neh? _______________________________ Rick Farris | rfarris@serene.cts.com | Voice (619) 259-6793 POB M | ...!uunet!serene!rfarris | BBS 259-7757 Del Mar, CA 92014 |_______________________________| serene.UUCP 259-3704