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In article <> unde...@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
>In article <> ju...@penet.fi (Ze Julf) writes:
>>...
>> In this case, a
>>very well-known and extremely highly regarded net personality managed to
>>contact exactly the right people to create a situation where it is
>>politically impossible for me to continue running the service.
>>...
>
>Please make the _name_ of this individual and his institution public!
>If he thinks that what he did was appropriate, then he should have the
>balls to tell us all in public.
>

	Agreed.

>>But of course this political situation is mainly caused by the abuse of the
>>network that a very small minority of anon users engaged in. This small
>>group of immature and thoughtless individuals (mainly users from US
>>universities) caused much aggravation and negative feelings towards the
>>service. This is especially unfortunate considering these people really are
>>a minuscule minority of anon users. The latest statistics from the service
>>show 18203 registered users, 3500 messages per day on the average, and
>>postings to 576 newsgroups. Of these users, I have received complaints
>>involving postings from 57 anonymous users, and, of these, been forced to
>>block only 8 users who continued their abuse despite a warning from me.
>>...
>
>Again, I have a funny feeling as to which newsgroups these morons populate.
>I would suggest that Ze make the names of these people _public_!  I hate
>immature assholes who do things like this.
>

	NOT agreed.  For an anon service to be valid, the individual who
	moderates/administrates it MUST hold to absolute anonymity, or
	those with valid uses for the service simply cannot trust it.

	Ze, I am truly sorry that some of my US university colleagues have
	created this situation by their thoughtlessness.  I applaud your
	decision to maintain the anonymity commitment even in the face of
	this situation.



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