Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!caip.rutgers.edu!toccata.rutgers.edu!rlr From: rlr@toccata.rutgers.edu (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Site Admin stuff -- what if I give boneheads accounts? Message-ID: Date: 16 Sep 89 06:00:14 GMT References: <7260@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Distribution: na Organization: RLRCLC Lines: 39 In article <1989Sep6.001332.12167@NCoast.ORG>, allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) says: >>>What if I cranked up a new system, called "annoy", perhaps, and offered >>>accounts (and full net/email access :-P) to anyone who was kicked off >>>the net at another site? > >> I have yet to "kick off" anyone here because of poor usenet protocol >> or for being a "nuisance to the net". > > You haven't, maybe, but let me drop a few names: > Rich Rosen > Tim Maroney (since returned, obviously ;-) > "Foothead" (fh@eddie.mit.edu -- circumstances unusual here) > > It does happen (primarily at universities?). And it can be argued that even > Rich Rosen, whom many people consider deserving of his fate, had a right to > use of the Net. Gee, this is news (no pun intended) to me. When was I kicked off the net? Really, I'm dying to know. And what exactly was this "fate" you speak of? And why did I deserve it, whatever it was, whether it came to pass in reality or just in some people's deranged imaginations? Please let me know where you get your information, Brandon, because I'll be sure to mark whatever/whomever that may be with a stamp that says "UNRELIABLE SOURCE - MULTIPLY ALL STATEMENTS BY -1 TO OBTAIN TRUTH" in big red letters. In future, please refrain from making comments about me (or anybody, for that matter) without confirming that what you say has some modicum of resemblance to the truth. Dogmatic religionists may have whined, self-aggrandizing Deadheads may have bitched and moaned, but I was never restricted from use of the net in any way, either during my period of employment at Bell Labs/Bellcore or thereafter. Got it? ... :-? (Now if THAT doesn't convince you that Rich Rosen hasn't been kicked off of any net known to man, woman or shoehorn, I don't know what will...) There, now I can get back to whatever it was I was doing? -- "We old ones have seen two R's..." Rich Rosen rlr@toccata.rutgers.edu