Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sco!seanf From: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Fool Message-ID: <8920@scolex.sco.COM> Date: 23 Nov 90 21:51:18 GMT References: <8313@gollum.twg.com> Sender: news@sco.COM Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. Lines: 31 In article karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu writes: >david@twg.com writes: >>This recent flap over DDMI.COM... >>A death-threat was made -- a shell script (less than 20 lines) was >>written which, if installed at an active & well-connected site, >>would effectively kill off any attempt by that site to make any >>postings. In most cases, sysadms tend to be fairly level-headed people, and are the ones called upon to deal with clients (i.e., people using the machine) who are in somway being unreasonable. In the case of ddmi, the sysadm was the one people considered being unreasonable, so what is to happen? And, of course, the postmaster at ddmi's feed wasn't terribly levelheaded either (I was on the receiving end of some of the unlevelheadedness, quite possibly justifiably). That's why the "death threat" was made. But, like most cases like this, it blew over, largely because most single sites are not capable of dealing with the wrath of 100+ people worldwide 8-). But what's going to happen next time? Say JJ manages, deity knows how, to get enough money to buy a cheap '386 and get a newsfeed from uunet, and then starts posting his trash again. What will the collective anarchy do then? -- -----------------+ Sean Eric Fagan | "*Never* knock on Death's door: ring the bell and seanf@sco.COM | run away! Death hates that!" uunet!sco!seanf | -- Dr. Mike Stratford (Matt Frewer, "Doctor, Doctor") (408) 458-1422 | Any opinions expressed are my own, not my employers'.