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From: smith@ncoast.UUCP (Phil Smith)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Mark Ethan Smith: For real?
Message-ID: <4815@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-Oct-87 20:26:35 EDT
Article-I.D.: ncoast.4815
Posted: Mon Oct  5 20:26:35 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 9-Oct-87 04:45:25 EDT
References: <378d6016.b8ab@apollo.uucp> <5261@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <2050@kitty.UUCP> <4802@ncoast.UUCP>
Reply-To: smith@ncoast.UUCP (Phil Smith)
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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> Article <4802@ncoast.UUCP> From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)

> As quoted from <2050@kitty.UUCP> by larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman):
> +---------------
> | 	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".
> +---------------
> 
>remarks by allbery have been deleted (if you want to know what he said
>look for his article.)

It sounds like anyone with the name of smith is being accused
of being a phony,non-real-person,liar. I take offense at this.
I have seen good and bad smiths on the net (i won't point them out).

If you wanted to refer to fakers, why didn't say 'John Doe', which
is the traditional way to identify unindentifiable persons?

So far as John Does, we at ncoast are only concerned that the person
is someone WE know an identity of. It isn't the business of anyone
else on the net to have that information. If a John Doe causes problems
on the net, a note to ncoast!root will ensure the problem is resolved.
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