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Subject: Re: where can I complain!
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Date: Tue, 3-May-88 15:54:58 EDT
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Summary: Not too certain if you CAN complain
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Subject: Re: where can I complain!
Message-ID: <2057@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-May-88 15:54:58 EDT
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In article <1694@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>, pfister@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (tom pfister) writes:
> In article <7780@ihlpa.ATT.COM> garyt@ihlpa.UUCP (45261-Theis,G.) writes:
> >
>   [annoying addvertisement for over-the-phone weight loss
>    counseling deleted: sounded just like the type of
>    ads you see on late night television]
> 
> Everyone on the net must have seen this ad by now.  It has been
> posted in numerous groups, always as a reply to a subject with
> no bearing what-so-ever to weight loss.  

> What can be done about a JERK like this??
> 
> Tom Pfister
> pfister@silver.bacs.indiana.edu



...I know how you feel. About a year ago, when I first got on the net, I was
flamed and verbally assaulted by a pair of idiots for no reason, and after
consulting our administration I was informed that A) as far as the Net was
concerned, there really wasn`t anything that could be done because the two
jerks were in another state, and B) if the matter was REALLY critical (like
these two idiots were uploading trojans {new or used} to the Binaries, then
they could get our SysAdmin to put the screws on THEIR SysAdmin, but it would
cause problems, and our SysAdmin wants no problems, period.

...It's sort of catch-22. Sure, they're doing something wrong, but you can't
do anything to them because they`re somewhere else. And if their SysAdmin
condones such activities (Hey, these guys were from Berkely, as it turns out)
then you can bet your bottom dollar that it's a no-win situation.

...it's like the problems with CUNY on Bitnet Relay. You can kick them offline,
but you can't shut them out of the system because their system is so linked
to the Relay that no one outside of the CUNY SysAdmin has the privledge of
banning anyone at CUNY from the Relay.


...anyway, go ahead and look into it. Maybe you'll find something that can
be done about this idiot, but somehow I doubt it...




							OM