Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!scs!spl1!laidbak!att!mtunx!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!constance.rutgers.edu!webber From: webber@constance.rutgers.edu (Bob Webber) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Users should : Monitor site output (formerly portal bashing) Message-ID: Date: 4 Jun 88 19:32:53 GMT Article-I.D.: constanc.Jun.4.15.32.52.1988.1414 References: <2134@rtech.UUCP> <2398@ll1a.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 37 In article <2398@ll1a.UUCP>, cej@ll1a.UUCP (Jones) writes: > In article <2134@rtech.UUCP>, daveb@llama.rtech.UUCP) writes: > > There is discussion of site responsibility for postings, particularly > > from commercial USENET service providers like Portal and the Well. Many > > people would agree that these sites have a greater moral obligation to > > the net because of the perceived lack of skill/knowledge of their user > > base. Actually, it is their administrators who have the perceived lack of skill/knowledge. I can't imagine any ``real'' usenet site having been dumb enough to call the postal authorities, much less post messages encouraging others to do the same. Their crime isn't having verbose users, or taking away accounts of such users, but for pulling federal authorities into a ``family'' matter, their connections should be dropped faster than a lead balloon. > There is an *easy* way with the current news software for > a copy of all postings originating at a site to be mailed to an > administrator. Just add a line like: How about something so that all postings from ``customer services'' get mailed to a user who can tell them when they are out of line? > I would like to suggest that the news administrators of > *all* sites, not to mention public sites, should know what their > posters are putting out on the net. I think all users should recieve mail of the contents of any messages that their admins plan on posting at least one day in advance of said posting. After all, such postings with their aura of ``officialdom'' can be quite damaging to a site's reputation. > Why be the last to know? Indeed. ------- BOB (webber@athos.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!athos.rutgers.edu!webber)