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From: patrick@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick A. Townson)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: The Moderator Who Doesn't Give A Sh*t
Message-ID: <1991Feb14.001337.19605@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 14 Feb 91 00:13:37 GMT
References: <1991Feb11.185846.20778@lavaca.uh.edu> <4672@prussian9.UUCP> <1991Feb13.124536.1625@chinet.chi.il.us>
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In article <1991Feb13.124536.1625@chinet.chi.il.us> laird@chinet.chi.il.us (Laird J. Heal) writes:

>yes, the Message-ID of 74436@bu.edu.bu.edu gives it away and if I had any
>connection with EFF and this newsgroup I would have canceled it immediately.

>Not that one would have any luck, but the actual author should be found
>and chastised by his news site system administrator, as that is not acceptable
>nettiquite.

I have accounts on any number of sites in the USA. The
reasons for this are many, but suffice it to say I can LEGALLY post
messages from several locations. I've had an account at Boston University
for a few years now.

As a matter of fact, I think the reason I was reading news at bu.edu was
becasue the Usenet gateway at accuvax.nwu.edu was out of order and I was
over there pushing comp.dcom.telecom stuff out to the net manually ...

Like the fool I am beginning to discover I am, if the gateway I normally
use for telecom postings is down rather than just saying screw it and
letting it sit in there until the gate comes up again I actually go to the
trouble of doing a remote copy of the queue to one of my accounts in
Boston where I then rlogin and Pnews it all out by hand ... I like turning
the news around fast ... or at least I did, but really, this whole thing
is beginning to be less and less FUN for me ... which was the only real
reason I got so involved.  That, and to give a helping hand to the former
moderator when he was unable to carry on with only a short notice.


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