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From: dyer@wivax.UUCP (Stephen Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.news.adm
Subject: Re: electronic vandalism
Message-ID: <18874@wivax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Oct-83 18:49:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: wivax.18874
Posted: Wed Oct 12 18:49:29 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 13-Oct-83 22:29:41 EDT
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Organization: Wang Institute, Tyngsboro, Ma.  01879
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I agree absolutely.  Net.motss was removed from my site this afternoon
by rocksvax's control message.  FIRST thing I'm going to do is recompile
my software so this won't happen again, but six messages to the group
have been lost at bbncca.

If this act was due to ignorance (he claimed to be cleaning up his
newsgroups to agree with the official list), then it should be
reemphasized that net-wise deletion of a newsgroup should only be
done after deliberation with the net, probably within net.news.group,
regardless of the contents of the official list.

If this act was deliberate provocation, it should be reemphasized
that this is strictly anti-social behavior, and will be dealt with
appropriately.

Steve Dyer
decvax!wivax!dyer
decvax!bbncca!sdyer