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Article #152Re: TRY AGAIN! --> PETITION to Protest C*sar/Arg*c Abuse of Usenet (LONG)
From: Jack Campin
Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 15:03
Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 15:03
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noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) wrote: > You must have forgotten the unbelievable > subject line lengths (often underlined no less), that originated from Cosar's > site. These totally swamped many news readers, making scans of the subject > lines virtually impossible. Firstly, since Argic has stopped, this is all rather beside the point, isn't it? Secondly, if they broke software that wasn't meeting Usenet standards, Cosar was doing us all a public service. Thirdly, somebody from Netcom presuming to call *anyone* else to account for net misbehaviour is ludicrous, given how much of it they tolerate from their own users (like Canter & Siegel still using them as a maildrop, or jim and jpdavid in rec.pets.cats right now). Get that beam out of your own eye and *then* get back to us. Finally, *learn what the goddam Followup-To: line is for*. This is utterly irrelevant to rec.arts.books, where I saw it; Argic has only sporadically posted there and not for several weeks now. Even *he* got that one right; you're being a far more obnoxious pest in r.a.b than he ever was. Followups to news.admin.misc. -- -- Jack Campin -- Room 1.36, Department of Computing & Electrical Engineering, Mountbatten Building, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, Edinburgh EH14 4AS TEL: 031 449 5111 ext 4195 HOME: 031 556 5272 FAX: 031 451 3431 INTERNET: jack@cee.hw.ac.uk BITNET: via UKACRL BANG!net: via mcsun & uknet
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