Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!yetti!geac!daveb From: daveb@geac.UUCP (Dave Collier-Brown) Newsgroups: news.admin,misc.legal Subject: Re: Mark Ethan Smith: For real? Message-ID: <1512@geac.UUCP> Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 09:08:25 EDT Article-I.D.: geac.1512 Posted: Thu Oct 1 09:08:25 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 3-Oct-87 01:19:50 EDT References: <378d6016.b8ab@apollo.uucp> <5261@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <2050@kitty.UUCP> Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (Dave Collier-Brown) Followup-To: alt.flame Organization: The little blue rock next to that twinkly star. Lines: 30 Summary: not a news administration problem Xref: mnetor news.admin:1056 misc.legal:2910 In article <2050@kitty.UUCP> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes: >In article <5261@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>, genji@opal.berkeley.edu (Genji Schmeder) writes: >> >Is this Mark Ethan Smith for real, or an elaborate (and long-standing) > I view the presence of anonymous and deceptive posters as a cancer >which seriously undermines the quality and integrity of Usenet. I call upon >any system administrator having "Smith" accounts to: > >1. Post to the Net any identifying information in their possession > about "Smith". > >2. Revoke any accounts (such as "Smith's") which have pseudonyms. Gentlepersons. This is not a matter which may usefully be discussed in the news administration newsgroup. You may indulge in flame wars on the alt subnet, in the flame group. The operation of sites on USENET is the responsibility of their owners, and unless actual harm is being done to other sites or persons by mail, the operation is not a matter for the courts or for the net. If you have probable cause to believe that harm is being done, please make it a matter for the courts. This message is being cross-posted to misc.legal. -- David Collier-Brown. {mnetor|yetti|utgpu}!geac!daveb Geac Computers International Inc., | Computer Science loses its 350 Steelcase Road,Markham, Ontario, | memory (if not its mind) CANADA, L3R 1B3 (416) 475-0525 x3279 | every 6 months.