🚀 go-pugleaf

George G <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> Chris Caputo <ccaputo@alt.net> wrote in
> news:1np63u.7ve.19.1@news.alt.net: 
> 
> > bealoid <signup@bealoid.co.uk> writes:
> >>Chris Caputo <ccaputo@alt.net> wrote in
> >>news:1nkaod.fks.17.1@news.alt.net: [snip]
> >>
> >>> Accusations of abuse which are not in violation of our
> >>> policies are generally ignored.  Sometimes I reply to a
> >>> complainer, but normally if they have not taken the time to
> >>> understand our policies, I do not bother. 
> >>> 
> >>> Happy to answer any other questions,
> >>
> >>Do you have any kind of "Don't frequently nymshift to evade
> >>kill-files" policy?
> > 
> > No.
> > 
> >>eg If a troll was nym-shifting several times a day to disrupt
> >>a news group would you ask them to stop?
> > 
> > No.
> > 
> > As long as a poster isn't infringing on someone else's real
> > email address or domain, they can be creative and set their
> > From: address as they like, and vary it as they want.
> > 
> > Chris Caputo
> > President, Altopia Corporation
> 
> I've seen many a perfectly good newsgroup ruined by your 
> customers thanks to that policy. Usenet is hardly worth bothering 
> with now and you are largely to blame for that. You must be very 
> proud.

I don't know why this got cross-posted to unnc, since it seems to
originate elsewhere. However I find it mildly amusing that someone
posting as George G <invalid@invalid.invalid> should be complaining
about what other users stick in their From: address. It also seems from
here that George G has cross-posted a message in order to stir up
trouble or to harvest howls of outrage at a statement made by Chris
Caputo. Again, hardly impeccable behaviour.

FWIW, I've supported Altopia for some time. I disagree profoundly with
the trolls and newsgroup wreckers who want to drive other users off
usenet or to reduce groups to a smoking wasteland of cascades or
kilobytes of re-posed ASCII art. However I can't blame Chris Caputo for
that. It's the immature individuals concerned that are the root of the
problem and often their "opponents" such as George G are in exactly the
same boat.

I've found that for genuine net abuse concerns Chris has been
unfailingly polite and helpful. Much more so than say NTL or BT.