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From: bro@eunomia.rice.edu (Douglas Monk)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: Re: Guidelines for posting to comp.groupware needed
Keywords: quality publication peer review
Message-ID: <1990Nov14.233831.27242@rice.edu>
Date: 14 Nov 90 23:38:31 GMT
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In article <4335@rossignol.Princeton.EDU> tr@samadams.princeton.edu (Tom Reingold) writes:
#In article <2736D7D0.5090@tct.uucp> chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
#writes:
#$ Under no circumstances will I ever put my phone number in my
#$ signature.  To do so would be asking for crank calls.
#
#I did it for a long time and never had a problem.

That is probably a function of the newsgroups in which you post and with whom 
you have disagreed. There have been many examples unlike your personal 
experience.

Even suggesting that people post their phone number in some newsgroups and
not in others will not work: the more seriously psychotic posters have been
known to cruise all newsgroups to post flames to every posting by their
target, and will go at least that far to find your phone number.

Email letter bomb campaigns are bad enough. Do we *really* want to make others
risk auto-dialing modem attacks?

Doug Monk (bro@rice.edu)

Disclaimer: These views are mine, not necessarily my organization's.