Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!ncar!ames!amdcad!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!munnari!otc!softway!necisa!lynpac!croot From: croot@lynpac.oz (Admin) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: bigoted racist misuse of email and computer accounts must be dealt with Summary: bigoted mail Keywords: sysadmins should act to stop racist mail Message-ID: <232@lynpac.oz> Date: 7 Dec 88 22:29:46 GMT References: <10704@ihlpa.ATT.COM> <17617@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: croot@lynpac.oz (Matt Atterbury) Organization: Lynwood Pacific, Sydney, Australia Lines: 28 In article <17617@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> era1987@violet.berkeley.edu writes: >In article <10704@ihlpa.ATT.COM> davidm@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Makowsky) writes: >>It seems that Nancy Gould has been struck again. I will post this >>one also.... > >[obscene hate mail posted] > >[and so on] I think I agree with this posting ... one should not have to fear using the net just because someone has taken a dislike to you/your creed/race/etc. There is a netiquette for this system ... people should respect it (if you want to flame someone, using ???.flame). Netland is a (micro-) society, and societies set the rules of one can/cannot do according to generally held beliefs of what is right/wrong. So if enough people think that this sort of abuse should not be permitted, then it should forcibly take action to prevent it. I don't *think* this is fascist because it would require a majority decision (majority of the votes cast just like US elections? :-)). rabid = ON; PULL THE PLUG ON THE B*****DS!!!! WHO NEEDS THIS SH*T ON THE NETWORK? rabid = OFF; I *think* in Oz that sysadmins would be required by law to prevent/prohibit such idiocy? I know that a large BBS sysadmin goes into some detail about this in his registration notes. It just seems like common decency to me??