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From: jordan@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Abuses of the net
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Date: Sat, 22-Nov-86 14:59:27 EST
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Stevan Harnad <harnad@mind.UUCP> writes:

	Someone using the following name, userid and institution
		"rathmann@brahms.berkeley.EDU (Really Michael Ellis)
	 	 Organization: 2-3:30PM, tuesdays and thursdays"
	wrote to sci.lang:

		" [ bad no-no words ] "

	I find it astonishing that such an obviously disturbed
	individual has access to an account at brahms.berkeley.EDU, let
	alone the news net.

Really? I'm not surprised at all ... I'd say there's a lot of
obviously disturbed individuals on brahms ...

	A copy of this will be sent to the system administrator at
	berkeley.EDU.

If you're going to make a point about it, don't send it to the admin at
Berkeley.EDU (aka, "ucbvax") since he really doesn't have anything to
do with the site brahms ... I would send it to the admin on brahms ...
there are probably 6 major news sites at Berkeley, each serving a
different part of the electronic community via NNTP ...  the best way
to reach the news admin is to see which NNTP site is responsible for
their feed (i.e., look at the Sender: line of the offending article ...
for brahms-ians, it's cartan -- part of the math/stat group of
machines) -- don't just send blindly to ucbvax.

I don't think that kind of language should be censored, but I do
think if you are offended by it you should make that clear to the
poster. Telling the system admin right away is pretty skeevy.

/jordan