[24891] in Cypherpunks
Re: All I did was properly crosspost!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carol Anne Braddock)
Fri Jan 6 12:56:57 1995
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 1995 11:43:16 -0600 (CST)
From: Carol Anne Braddock <carolann@mm.com>
To: Nesta Stubbs <nesta@nesta.pr.mcs.net>
Cc: Cypherpunks <cypherpunks@toad.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9501060852.B2432-0100000@nesta.pr.mcs.net>
On Fri, 6 Jan 1995, Nesta Stubbs wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jan 1995, Carol Anne Braddock wrote:
> ten is not a large number when it comes o cross-posting on soem topics, I
> can think of at lezast tewenty newsgroups where the PRZ letters and such
> would make alot of sense and be on topic. This just goes to show the
> soemtimes reactionar steps people take to control spamming. it leads to
> people getting hurt, especially whent he sysop at your site is nto
> intelligent enough to look aat the article, and see wether or not it was
> cross-posted to valid groups etc..and not only that, but to completely
> pull your account for such a small thing(ten groups? that's nothing in
> comparison to some aticles out there still going) What is the name of the
> sysop at that site your account was pulled form?
>
His name is Michael Horwath, root@winternet.com
> > But to take my account away for crossposting to 10 groups is not right.
> >
> I agree, ten groups is a small amount, especially if they are at least
> amrginally on topic.
>
> This is soemthing that we need to watch out for tho, it makes people
> fearful of spreadung information, when evenif you spread it in a nice
> manner, to on-topic groups etc.. that you face the chance of some bozo
> net-vigilante complaining to your sysop and having your account yanked.
> >From teh evidence here it seems the sysop acted in a reactionary manner,
> probably out of fear of some asshole mailbombing your account.
>
> I heartily reccomend that those of you who do not know your sites
> policies for such, become aquainted with them, or at least contact the
> syspo and talk about this issue. If you contact him and talk to him(her)
> about it then they are less likely to react so quickly and IMO stupidly.
> It's amazing how much just knowing your sysops first name helps in such a
> situation.
>
> As for MCs, I am not sure of their policies but Karl is very reliable,
> and I doubt he would be so reactionary, in any case, I'll contact him
> about such policies.
>
>
From carolann@vortex.mm.com Fri Jan 6 01:39:29 1995
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 1995 21:57:05 -0600
From: Carol Anne Braddock <carolann@vortex.mm.com>
To: carolann@vortex.mm.com
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