Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!yale!cmcl2!phri!roy From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: The phone number for Portal Summary: I guess peer pressure does work! Message-ID: <3320@phri.UUCP> Date: 25 May 88 16:33:56 GMT References: <776@fig.bbn.com> Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 15 In article <776@fig.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes: > If you are as annoyed as by these "HELP ME" messages being spewed all > over the net as I am, you might appreciate the #T line shown below... I did indeed. I called Portal this morning and left my name and number on their answering machine. An hour or so later somebody called me back. When I explained why I was calling she assured me that they were aware of the situation and had yanked JJ's account yesterday morning (that would be the morning of the 24th, the same date as the latest round of JJ messages). -- Roy Smith, System Administrator Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 {allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers}!phri!roy -or- phri!roy@uunet.uu.net