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From: mjc@cad.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA (Monica Cellio)
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.flame
Subject: Re: Give me a break!!!
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Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 20:09:07 EDT
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From: linus!watmath!jagardner@cca (Jim Gardner)
>Might I suggest that the guardians of group purity (in any group)
>wait until the SECOND inappropriate message before descending in
>droves.  Two messages indicates a trend that may need correcting.
>A single message should be assumed to be innocent until proven guilty.

This time of year there are a lot of new, naive users.  I think the correct
response is to send a short, *polite* note explaining the problem and
pointing to net.announce.newuser.

Keeping track of all the people who post inappropriately would be a major
task.  You don't deserve flames unless it's *obvious* you know better (the
Frank Adrian incident comes to mind) but you should expect some mail.

							-Dragon
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