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From: harnad@mind.UUCP (Stevan Harnad)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.misc
Subject: Abuses of the net
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Date: Wed, 19-Nov-86 15:25:04 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 19 15:25:04 1986
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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:

>    you have shit-for-brains... This is all horse manure...
>    you are blowing your hot air out the wrong orifice...
>    Paperboy wanted to handle Fecal Heights and surrounding vicinity...
>    get her ass up here... don't waste your foul breath telling me...
>    male chauvinist pricks... but THEY sure as hell left THEIR crap all
>    over the place... go shove where the sun doesn't shine... Utter crap.

I find it astonishing that such an obviously disturbed individual has
access to an account at brahms.berkeley.EDU, let alone the news net.
If the net is to evolve into the respectable forum many of us hope it
will become, there must be a way of blocking this sort of misuse. Not
all groups can be moderated, but the unmoderated ones should still
ensure that serious consequences overtake this sort of abuse. A copy of this
will be sent to the system administrator at berkeley.EDU. I hope
other net news users will also bring some collective pressure to bear
on this sort of behavior. (Apologies to any of the above-named if
someone else has been clandestinely misusing their names and accounts,
but then they will no doubt want to be alerted so they can change passwords.)
-- 

Stevan Harnad                                  (609) - 921 7771
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