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From: dave@andromeda.RUTGERS.EDU (Dave Bloom)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm,net.news.sa
Subject: The REAL problem with USENET
Message-ID: <324@andromeda.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Thu, 29-May-86 12:51:36 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 29 12:51:36 1986
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Organization: Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
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Keywords: Restraint, Administrator-Responsibility
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I keep reading about the USENET problem and wondering why there is
one. I imagine the worst of the situation is the reposting/rehashing
of text that appears as quotes in other people's postings. For example,
today a student brought to my attention a posting by
weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU message id <14003@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> which
consisted of 126 lines of text, 63 of which were delimited by ">".
(The posting appears in net.jokes)

This is not the first time this person has posted mega-line quote postings
to this newsgroup, nor is he the only one. I suggest that the success of this
network depends in part on the ability of System Administrators to keep a
handle on idiots like this, educating or revoking their net privilages if
they continue their ways. Furthermore, if a site refuses to police their own
users, the nearest backbone site should simply cut them off until the problem
is rectified.

If you see this type of behavior in a particular user's postings,
and it continues after sending him personal mail, I think it appropriate
that 'usenet' or 'root' be notified at his site. If that doesn't work,
I imagine mail to the newsfeed site administrator would be appropriate.

"What do you think?.... We'd like to know."
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