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From: owen@wrs.UUCP (Owen DeLong)
Newsgroups: news.admin,misc.misc
Subject: Re: A Note From Portal Regarding the "JJ" Incident
Message-ID: <529@wrs.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jun 88 22:19:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: wrs.529
References: <6135@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: owen@wrs.UUCP (Owen DeLong)
Organization: Wind River Systems, Emeryville, CA
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In article <6135@cup.portal.com> CS@cup.portal.com writes:
>After this took place, we at Portal immediately disabled the user's
>account, making it no longer possible for the user, a Mr. Rob Noha, to
>use Portal.
>
>We then sent out cancel posting to minimize the transmission of the JJ
>postings.

Thank you PORTAL.

Sorry to post this, but my mailer is broken... Yet another project to fix :-)

The steps you outlined in the referenced article were both responsible
and appreciated by several (dare I say most, even all?) of the people
on the net.  I think that public access USENET machines are a good idea.  I
have seen a number of good things come out of portal, and well.  I got my
introduction to USENET through well, and managed to make contacts there to get
the feeds I was using in my first USENET site.  Nobody seemed offended by
the fact that I was there, nore have I seen any offensive things comming from
public access sites that I haven't seen from Universities and sometimes 
from private companies.  I saw several discussions of SEND $1 to.... on other
groups recently.  Many of them came from other sites, etc.  The place where
'JJ' upset everyone is in the # of groups, and the persistancy of posting.
'JJ' should be drawn and quartered.  However, let's not burn down the barn
because the horse stinks.  SUPPORT PUBLIC ACCESS UNIX.  It is a good thing.

(I found this job through the net!)

Owen