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From: karl@ddsw1.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Mark Ethan Smith: For real?
Message-ID: <234@ddsw1.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Oct-87 17:50:14 EDT
Article-I.D.: ddsw1.234
Posted: Fri Oct  2 17:50:14 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 3-Oct-87 12:01:16 EDT
References: <378d6016.b8ab@apollo.uucp> <5261@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <2050@kitty.UUCP>
Reply-To: karl@ddsw1.UUCP (Karl Denninger)
Organization: Macro Computer Solutions, Inc. - Mundelein, IL
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In article <2050@kitty.UUCP> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes:
>In article <5261@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>, genji@opal.berkeley.edu (Genji Schmeder) writes:
>	No Usenet site should have anonymous users.  Usenet is not (or
>SHOULD not) be conducted as a juvenile BBS.  

Agreed (so far).  All our users must identify themselves by real name in
their .signature files, and the 'gecos' field of their passwd entry contains
a real, valid name.  No exceptions.

>	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.

I've got to laugh.  MES has an account, he is a real person, and we have in
our posession sufficient information to verify this as a *fact*.  In fact,
Mark and I have spoken on the telephone on occasion, and *I* placed the call
to the number supplied.

Post to the net?  Sorry, our policy is that registration information is
confidential, and will only be disclosed upon presentation of legal force
(ie: a subpoena).  Somehow I doubt you can muster that.

Revoke any accounts??  Not unless a clear violation of our policy occurs,
and I don't see it here (and yes, I have been following this entire thing).

"Not a disclaimer":
As administrator of this system, and President of our company, I am
responsible for what goes into, out of, and is processed by our computer
equipment.  

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