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Re: you creeps

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Casti, CQA)
Wed Oct 16 16:40:53 1996

Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 13:50:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Bill Casti, CQA" <quire@casti.com>
To: John Cronin <John.Cronin@oit.gatech.edu>
cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199610161750.NAA08701@oit.gatech.edu>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu


I'll be happy to volunteer to moderate the list to weed out the dreck 
(including my *own* mistakes!). I already do that with a 2,000-subscriber TQM
list.

Bill


On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, John Cronin wrote:

> Once upon a time, Bill Casti, CQA told me this tale:
> ->
> ->I've contacted the system administrator at infonex.com....loki@OBSCURA.COM
> ->
> ->Looks like it may be time to make this a moderated list....??
> 
> I talked to him to.  It is an anonymous remailer. I looked at his home
> page (http://www.obscura.com/~loki/), and the thing looks pretty
> unbreakably anonymous to me, for all intents and purposes.  loki did
> say that he could block our list from his site (ie it won't send
> email to the list).  I personally don't have any problem with that,
> but I can't make any decisions for the list.
> 
> Personally, if this is going to turn into some kind of contest with
> morons, I may just decide to unsubscribe.  While I know that sounds
> like quitting, but this list gets so far off topic and ends up with
> such a low signal to noise ratio that it is barely worth it now.  Of
> course, by definition of "on topic", this post is noise as well.
> 
> -- 
> John Cronin
> Office of Information Technology Customer Support Center 0710
> Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
> Internet: john.cronin@oit.gatech.edu
> phone: (404) 894-7563
> 

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