Xref: utzoo soc.culture.jewish:8477 news.misc:2198 news.sysadmin:1752 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!amdahl!nsc!voder!pyramid!booter From: booter@pyrnova (Elaine Richards) Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish,news.misc,news.sysadmin Subject: Re: Anti-Semitism (Jew-hatred) on the network. What should be done? Message-ID: <49196@pyramid.pyramid.com> Date: 30 Nov 88 20:58:02 GMT Sender: daemon@pyramid.pyramid.com Reply-To: booter@pyrnova.UUCP (Elaine Richards) Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA Lines: 26 My two cents. I saw the two notes. They were offensive and peurile. Such mailings to individuals cannot be prevented or governed. If you get a system administrator (who has such authority) to toss a yahoo off a system, another will come by. The original offender who was tossed will find another UNIX box to be a jerk on. Most of the time, the more inflammatory individuals get bored, graduate or grow up. I guarantee that this same person who called Nancy a "Jewish bitch" would call someone else a "WASP bitch" or a "drunken Irishman". The best tactic is to write this person off. Do not reply to these mailings. If they persist, then contact the sysadmin there. If they fill the net with flamage, then we will collectively pounce on the hooligan. There is a fear that the Neo-Nazis and various anti(insert ethnicity here) groups will expand in numbers. This is valid. Alas, the usenet is not going to rise in a body and smash anti-semitism by censoring mail and netnews. If anything, we need to know who these people are and keep an eye on them. I also do not think that they are bright enough to turn the net into a very effective soapbox for their verbal graffiti. ER (Standard disclaimer about my Company,opinion, my Irish ancestors and my WASP father)