Xref: utzoo news.admin:3542 news.groups:5472 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mit-eddie!husc6!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!juniper!yelorose From: yelorose@juniper.uucp (Bob Mosley III) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups Subject: Re: Call for Discussion: Moderation of news.admin Message-ID: <4910@juniper.uucp> Date: 26 Sep 88 04:29:03 GMT References:<3147@utastro.UUCP> <699@mace.cc.purdue.edu> <1581NMBCU@CUNYVM> <828@acer.stl.stc.co.uk> <2067@looking.UUCP> Reply-To: yelorose@juniper.UUCP (Bob Mosley III) Organization: Help Send An Engineer to Hell Inc, Austin, Tx. Lines: 37 In article <2067@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes: > >Besides, I dunno about Gene, but moderating one group is plenty enough >work for me! Right now I've got some jerk at linus who sends me a couple >of insulting mail messages every day because I once rejected his silly pun. >This sort of problem I wouldn't wish on anybody. (Anybody from Linus >listening and willing to have this particular one wished on them?) >-- >Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473 ...this sounds like the sort of crapola one M> Joseph Barone used to do to me back on my old account on Ut-EMX. Every day I'd find no less than 5 messages claiming that "because your posting is annoying, I'm going to abuse my e-mail privleges and abuse the hell out of you". ...complaints to his root revealed that he himself was the rootadmin, and instead of admitting to his he invented a fake account to refute my claims. ...oh well, that's fine. I'm sure that Raytheon's general administration loved those buffers I sent with my complaint in snail mail. ...the best way to handle these jerks is to set up some sort of purge shell in your mail reader. I had one in my old account, but I havn't had a chance to port it over to the new one. ...this brings up a good point: If the admin of a particular problem side refuses to take action and supports it's problem users, what recourse is there? With all the problems coming from Portal, there must have been some sort of procedures set up to dispose of them accordingly. OM PS - Brad, how's Ty doing with his new assignment on JLI? The results so far have been impressive as hell! (no pun intended!)