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Re: Anon.penet.fi no more

#66414
From: unde... Dwight Joe
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 01:24
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In article <1993Mar23.1...@penet.fi> 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.

>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

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.

>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.


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From: unde...@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe)
Subject: Re: Anon.penet.fi no more
Message-ID: <1993Mar24.012441.16103@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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