Xref: utzoo talk.bizarre:70616 news.admin:15111 comp.admin.policy:397 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!csus.edu!ucdavis!iris!zerkle From: zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle) Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,news.admin,comp.admin.policy Subject: Re: newbies unite! Message-ID: <9152@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Date: 11 Jun 91 05:46:31 GMT References: <9327@buster2.Michigan.COM> <8003@ecs.soton.ac.uk> <9331@buster2.Michigan.COM> <1991Jun10.221745.21108@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Sender: usenet@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu Reply-To: zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle) Followup-To: news.admin Organization: U.C. Davis - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Lines: 58 I am quoting this article in its entirety with none of my additional comments. The reason will become apparent if you read this. In article <1991Jun10.221745.21108@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: #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. # Dan Zerkle zerkle@iris.eecs.ucdavis.edu (916) 754-0240 Amiga... Because life is too short for boring computers.