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From: fitz@wang.UUCP (Tom Fitzgerald)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Jail postmasters
Message-ID: <694@wang.UUCP>
Date: 1 Dec 89 04:40:49 GMT
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> I gotta protest the suggestions of waging pseudo-terrorism by grep-ing
> /usr/spool/news and mailing everybody you see, etc.  This is likely to only
> cause irritation and alot of needless mail activity.

This is not terrorism if you do it right.  If I were doing this, I'd
locate the most sophisticated poster (somebody posting sources is a good
bet, somebody posting questions to news.newusers.questions probably not),
and write them one (1) letter asking for the sysadmin's name, and whether
people there know about the problem.  If this doesn't work, get one more
name and send one (1) more message, etc.

Terrorism is the last thing you want in a case like this.  A pissed off
sysadmin is unlikely to help solve problems for you.  If the sysadmin
is not reading (or getting) his mail, you need to do _something_.

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