Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nuchat!flatline!erict
From: erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Nuke Waterloo?
Message-ID: <487@flatline.UUCP>
Date: 9 Dec 88 05:49:35 GMT
References: <10279@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <18002@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
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In article <18002@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith) writes:
> In article <2188@unmvax.unm.edu>, mike@turing (Michael I. Bushnell) writes:
> 
> >   Well, it seems that JEDR got his way...
> 
>   Any ideas on what to do about U. Waterloo's bad net
> citizenship? It seems to me a site which wants to be a
> self-appointed censorship board may be better off the net,
> despite the trouble that would cause to innocent bystanders.

I thought the rule was that anybody who was too disruptive would get
their feed cut.  If their neighbors didn't want to cut their feed,
then the neighbors of the neighbors would cut 'em *all* off.


I think cutting Waterloo down to a [comp,news].all feed would be a good
start, and give them the message.  If they (or JEDR) insists on keeping
up, stop all news.  At last resort, cut their email as well.

If I was posting generally disruptive things to the net, and trying to
get it shut down because nobody wanted alt.dev.null besides me and
Peter dS., flatline would have soon become a net until itself, and itself
alone.

Maybe we should have a vote from system administrators?  Say, root@site,
to see what the general feeling is?  (I am *not* volunteering to take
this vote, btw. :-)

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