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From: larry@kitty.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.groups,news.admin
Subject: Re: childish and insulting behavior
Message-ID: <2064@kitty.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 3-Oct-87 00:49:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: kitty.2064
Posted: Sat Oct  3 00:49:50 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 4-Oct-87 01:02:24 EDT
References: <3072@mtgzz.UUCP> <558@cc6.bbn.com.BBN.COM> <2945@phri.UUCP>
Organization: Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, NY
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Xref: utgpu news.groups:1505 news.admin:950
Summary: Behavior of persons posting to USesenet

In article <2945@phri.UUCP>, roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
> In <558@cc6.bbn.com.BBN.COM> arodwin@cc6.bbn.com.UUCP (Andrew Rodwin) writes:
> > I am posting this here to curb this individual's behavior by public
> > humiliation. [...] Does anyone know [...]  who to contact at Rutgers to
> > have his/her computer account terminated because of misuse?
> ... 
> 	There is a whole other question regarding whether "squealing" to a
> site administrator about the behavior of somebody at that site is the right
> thing to do.  I think it is, but lots of people think it is not.

	Well, *I* certainly agree with Roy Smith.  System administrators
and the site organizations themselves share legal responsibility for the
actions of their users who send mail and post Usenet articles.  The time
is long overdue for someone to "test" this issue.

<>  Larry Lippman @ Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, New York
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