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From: wdstarr@athena.mit.edu (William December Starr)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: How do I find somebody else's sysadmin?
Message-ID: <1989Nov23.034343.4663@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 23 Nov 89 03:43:43 GMT
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I've seen references in this newsgroup to the practice of reporting
*really* egregious breaches of net.ettiquette and/or state or federal
law to the perpetrator's system administrator.

Well, I'd like to report a bozo who posted a chain letter for a "get
rich quick" pyramid scheme to rec.arts.sf-lovers.  So, assuming the
guy's net.ID is "joe_jerk@foo.bar.edu," how do I find out the name and
address of the system admin at foo.bar.edu?  I suppose I could take a
potshot and send mail to "sysadmin@foo.bar.edu" and hope to get lucky,
but aside from that what steps should I take?  (Or should I just send 
Snail Mail off to the office of the Attorney General of the United 
States?)