Xref: utzoo talk.bizarre:70592 news.admin:15093 comp.admin.policy:395 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!daver!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,news.admin,comp.admin.policy Subject: Re: newbies unite! Message-ID: <1991Jun10.221745.21108@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 10 Jun 91 22:17:45 GMT References: <9327@buster2.Michigan.COM> <8003@ecs.soton.ac.uk> <9331@buster2.Michigan.COM> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 50 rabbit@buster2.UUCP (Dr. Roger Rabbit) writes: > You know what - I haven't heard from Mr. Dolan for > a long time, but I did see some followups to his > posts. Found out that the SYSOP here (Mr. Palmer) > has put Dolan's entire site into the global > kill-file on the main box here. Looks like he got a sudden case of hives at having his mendacity pointed out where the paying customers can see it. I guess we have to add cowardice to his sociopathy as another incurable character flaw. It is hilarious that he has declared public victory over that evil man from xanth, who, in his mind, is the one cause of all his net troubles, while at the same time being too frightened to even allow his subscribers to read the words of the vanquished. Interpolate a heartfelt evil chuckle here, if it pleases you. I suppose there is some administrative question here about the appropriateness of offering your customers a "Usenet account", and then silently disabling part of that account's feed to keep your customers from learning about your underhanded business practices. Somehow it seems entirely typical of a John P. Palmer thought process. Perhaps some kind soul will quote this posting in full just to get it to the customers of DDMI. > You know that that box serves about 950 machines. > Looks like your excluded from a big part of the > net, Kent. (I bet I am too, though :-> ) I've always been a popular kill file entry; too many people in the world can't abide strong opinions or clearly stated truths; I won't much miss the dial-ups at DDMI, but wonder whether they need a few folks like me just to keep management honest. I, myself, don't use kill files as kill files, though for a few low value, high noise groups, I do use them to select what I read by keyword, and ignore the rest; stands me in good stead. I manage to survive reading postings that disagree with me, and often learn from them, sometimes nothing more than humility. Too bad Palmer is so intent on maintaining his errors that he can't similarly abide criticism, but weak is as weak does. Kent, the man from xanth.