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From: mason@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Mason)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.flame
Subject: Re: NET ABUSE by pur-ee!CSvax:abw
Message-ID: <2031@utcsrgv.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 20-Aug-83 01:10:52 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 20 01:10:52 1983
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Geee I'm just back from vacation and I find myself almost (*ALMOST*)
wishing I'd seen this article.  I haven't seen so much activity since
early in the spring when someone's mailer (or user) was sending dozens of
copies of some silly note.  WHAT are we going to do about other people's
net manners (ours of course are impeccable!)? I think almost all our problems
are related to people not knowing any better so how about this:
We create a new kind of message that never gets deleted and we post an
article on net manners & protocols to it.  Then when someone first says
readnews they will get it printed, and when a new site comes on, the first
site it calls will send it the manners letter.  Perhaps the easiest way
would be a group called net.manners that only administrators can post to
and that you can't unsubscribe and that doesn't get aged.

 -- Gandalf's flunky Hobbit --   Dave Mason, U. Toronto CSRG,
        {cornell,watmath,ihnp4,floyd,allegra,utzoo,uw-beaver}!utcsrgv!mason
     or {cwruecmp,duke,linus,lsuc,research}!utzoo!utcsrgv!mason   (UUCP)