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From: LRL@psuvm.psu.edu (Linda Littleton)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.misc
Subject: Re: Do you restrict your users?
Message-ID: <90043.092940LRL@PSUVM.BITNET>
Date: 12 Feb 90 14:29:40 GMT
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Organization: Penn State University
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So far, in just one day, I've gotten over 20 answers to my question of
how to deal with users saying inappropriate things on the net.  I will
summarize later, but for now see that I need to clarify the questions.

>2. How do you deal with a user who posts inappropriate stuff?

People answered the expected stuff of warning the user, then taking away
their privileges, etc.  What I'd like to know is:

2a. Who issues the warnings and deals the user's appeals?  Does this
    generally befall the news administrator?

2b. Do you wait for users to call bad stuff to your attention, or does
    someone go looking for it?

>3. What do you do when users complain about articles posted at another
>   site?  Our most recent complaint was against a rotated posting
>   in rec.humor that contained racist, anti-semitic, anti-homosexual,
>   foul language, and everything else.

I should clarify that it way a high level professor who rot13'd the
message and then complained to my boss's boss's boss, who told me to
cancel the article.  I did (just from our local system) and am wondering
how others would have handled this.

Our director got word of it and has told me to filter out bad stuff if
possible, and otherwise to go ahead and cancel any non-local posting that
any of our users complain about.

Thanks for the feedback and advice.